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THE PENTATEUCH AND WORLD HISTORY -An Analysis by L.E. SALAZAR THE BOOK OF GENESIS
In this analysis, readers are invited to consider the proven history reported in The Book of Genesis as a matter of Theology versus Theosophy. Theosophists, throughout human history, beginning with Enoch, the son of Cain, have denied the Creation of Man. Then, throughout the 20 th century, having previously denied the existence of the land of Accad and the land of Shinar alluded to in the writings of Moses, the son of Amram the Levite, theosophists have sought relentlessly to incorporate the Pentateuch into the Babylonian and other national fables surrounding worshipped ancestors and tyrants. However, when this order is reversed where the genealogical records and time keeping of the Pentateuch are seen as factual and easily proven in comparison to the ancient king lists, all fabulous records can be fitted into Real Biblical Solar and Lunar Time instead of astronomical, mythological and geological time.
There is no doubt that Moses is the most important human figure in the Torah, which could almost be understood, as suggested by Rolf Knierim, as a "biography of Moses. " 1 Indeed, the book of Exodus starts with Moses's birth story in chapter 2, and the last chapter of the Pentateuch, Deut 34, reports the death of Moses, so that the books of Exodus to Deuteronomy are tied together by the life of Moses and cover, on the narrative level, the 120 years of his life. If the Pentateuch can be understood as a life of Moses, the book of Genesis would constitute a prologue of sorts to the Moses story. 2 There are, of course, other actors in the books of Exodus to Deuteronomy, especially Aaron, although he shows up only after Moses's call in Exod 4 and in a quite unexpected and unprepared way. The reader of Exod 4 may indeed be puzzled because the text had not yet mentioned that Moses had a brother. In Moses's birth story in Exod 2, there is no allusion at all to an older brother. On the contrary, Moses appears to be the firstborn. And it is also quite clear that the appearance of the sister in Exod 2 is due to a later redactor who wanted to show that Moses was not abandoned by his family when he was discovered by Pharaoh's daughter. 3 The
Kairos: Evangelical Journal of Theology, 2016
This piece is a concise summary of the historical and contemporary development of Pentateuch studies in Old Testament Theology. This article aims to provide information on the possible confirmation of Mosaic authorship. The purpose is to examine how the Documentary Hypothesis, Fragment and Supplemental Hypotheses, Form and Traditio-Historical Criticism, Canonical and Literary Criticism have helped to reveal or identify the identity of the author of the Torah. To better understand the mentioned hypotheses, this article presents a brief description of the J, E, D, and P sources.