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Originally Posted by Indy Coug
How is that any different than calling the Pentateuch the "Books of Moses"? Couldn't have Moses simply aggregated some of the source material that is in the Pentateuch and then the remainder of the Pentateuch was either written by him or about him? As such, they can be generically referred to as the Books of Moses since he had varying degrees of involvement with them.
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Friedman contends that time and geography do not support the thought of Moses as an "aggregator". For example, the evidence suggests that the author of Deuteronomy most certainly wrote the following six books as a single continuous work, and lived during the reign of King Josiah.
Interestingly, Friedman also posits there is a very real possibility that the author of "J" may have been a woman. The "J" stories are more sympathetic to women (e.g. the story of Tamar in Genesis 38). This particular story references the wrong done and describes her plan to combat injustice and "
concludes with the man in the story (Judah) acknowledging her rights".
Guess which side of that argument I favor...