Who Really Wrote the Bible?: And Why It Should Be Taken Seriously Again - Hardcover

Rav-noy, Eyal; Weinreich, Gil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0980076307 ISBN 13: 9780980076301

Publisher: Richard Vigilante, 2010

Synopsis

Dazzlingly defeats two hundred years of spurious scriptural scholarship. Using the most up-to-date methods of analysis, Who Really Wrote the Bible? debunks the academic consensus that what we know of as the Five Books of Moses was cobbled together by some ancient editor from the works of four different authors living centuries apart. With impeccable scholarship Eyal Rav-Noy and Gil Weinreich reveal the supreme literary talent behind the Bible's single authorship and show that it is the modern academics who are behind the times. - Learn how university scholars and clergymen were deceived, and even seduced from their faith, by bad scholarship and flawed assumptions. - See as never before the pristine unity of the Bible in stunning literary patterns that had to have emanated from a single mind. - Learn how the multiple-authorship theory depends on a simple misconception of the Hebrew names for God. - See how abandoning single authorship has driven Bible scholars to ever more absurd misreadings, turning the profound into the nonsensical. - Grasp the beauty and power of the dominant literary pattern in the Torah, the chiasmus. - See how an easily discernable Bible code underscores important teachings, debunks the Bible critics, and can bring you to an ever richer and more powerful understanding of the foundational text of Judeo-Christian civilization.

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From the Inside Flap:

NEWS FLASH: AUTHORSHIP SCANDAL! Were the Five Books of Moses Actually Written by...Moses? Rabbis, priests, and ministers advance agendas at odds with biblical morality. Bible "scholars" spend more time deconstructing the Bible than meditating on its message. The Bible seems to command less respect with each generation. How did this happen?

Who Really Wrote the Bible? traces the assault on the Bible's authority to an outmoded academic theory--the so-called "documentary hypothesis"--that claims the Five Books of Moses were composed by four different authors (called J, E, P, and D) writing hundreds of years apart.

By undermining the notion of unified authorship, "the Bible critics" undermine the Bible itself, claiming to show a Creator who not only contradicts Himself but cannot even tell a coherent narrative of His own creation. Thus the critics erode the Bible's moral authority and turn the world's greatest book into a meaningless mess.

Here's the good news. The scholars are wrong, their "scholarship" two hundred and fifty years behind the times.

Written in an entertaining and engaging style, Who Really Wrote the Bible? confronts head-on the follies and foibles of "the Bible critics"--the class of professional scholars and theologians whose dogmatic thinking and intellectual laziness keep them from properly understanding the one book they have a responsibility to teach.

Using examples from well-known narratives such as the stories of Creation and the Ten Plagues, authors Eyal Rav-Noy and Gil Weinreich introduce readers to unique literary patterns that show just how carefully planned and unified the Bible really is.

In the end the book demonstrates that it is the Bible critics whose claims are hopelessly self-contradictory. Who Really Wrote the Bible? will shatter a scholarly consensus that has evaded definitive refutation for over a quarter of a millennium. The authors conclude that J, E, P, and D could not have been the authors of the Bible but that the Five Books of Moses must be the work of a single hand.

Reestablishing the literary unity of the Five Books of Moses, Who Really Wrote the Bible? encourages readers to take the Bible seriously again and to reverse the tide of relativism and academic fashion that serves to erode society's moral foundation.

About the Author:

Eyal Rav-Noy is director of the Jewish Learning Academy, where he specializes in textual analysis and the history of biblical criticism. He has lectured far and wide on the intellectual shortcomings of conventional con-temporary Bible scholarship. A native of Israel, Rav-Noy makes his home in Los Angeles. Gil Weinreich, award-winning reporter and financial journalist, is the long-time editor of Research, a leading trade magazine for financial advisors. A student of Torah, Talmud, and Jewish law, Weinreich previously served as an international news reporter at Voice of America. He lives in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Richard Vigilante
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0980076307
• ISBN 13: 9780980076301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230