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Originally Posted by Archaea
I believe Cassuto addresses the issue about how scientific theories become the favorite godchildren of their originators and it requires the death of the originators before future scholars will adequately challenge them or reexamine them. We fall often beholden to our pet theories, even if the evidence around us suggests otherwise.
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You know, rarely does a committee generate a lasting work of literature. Scholars have speculated for a long time that the Iliad and Shakespeare's works were written by multiple people. But the overwhelming consensus has endured that they weren't. It wouldn't suprise me if the Pentateuch was the same; one fellow or woman (Bloom believes J was a woman) just made up all the fantastic stuff at some point.