What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee? — George Steiner Copy Share Image
That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where… — David Baker Copy Share Image
I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“When the Greek translation of the Pentateuch was made, /Ģ/ was still a distinct phoneme, but when the remaining books were translated,… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“It is only to admit that what we have cannot be explained as an early (second-millennium-BC) document written essentially by one person… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
We [with Frank Moore Cross] have the same fervor, the same passion when in front of us is a page, a unique… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration.… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Yet all agree that the Pentateuch is not a single, seamless composition but a patchwork of different sources, each written under different… — Israel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“The exiled Jews who settled in Babylonia were able to maintain their identity, in part because they were allowed to practice their… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“As shown in chapter 2, the Pentateuch largely rejects the monarchic principle as it was construed elsewhere, often with a religiously sanctioned… — Joshua A. Berman Copy Share Image
“In The Bible Unearthed, archaeologist Israel Finkelstein demonstrates that much biblical composition was done from the 8th century BCE onward. Even in… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is that for Wellhausen and many other biblical scholars before and since, the Pentateuch as we know it (an… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The author(s) of the Pentateuch believed that God actually created the universe in the past, Abraham migrated from Mesopotamia to Palestine, Moses… — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Comment on the authorship of the Pentateuch (Genesis - Deuteronomy)" -" ... it is not the author who is important. What matters… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The Pentateuch was not authored out of whole cloth by a second-millennium Moses but is the end product of a complex literary… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
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