Books Quote by Anonymous

“Yet all agree that the Pentateuch is not a single, seamless composition but a patchwork of different sources, each written under different historical circumstances…

— Israel Finkelstein

“It is only to admit that what we have cannot be explained as an early (second-millennium-BC) document written essentially by one person (Moses). Rather,…

— Peter Enns

“The Pentateuch was not authored out of whole cloth by a second-millennium Moses but is the end product of a complex literary process—written, oral,…

— Peter Enns

“This is extremely significant. Knowing something of when the Pentateuch came to be, even generally, affects our understanding of why it was produced in…

— Peter Enns

“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“The bottom line is that for Wellhausen and many other biblical scholars before and since, the Pentateuch as we know it (an important qualification)…

— Peter Enns

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which…

— Jonathan Swift

“The author(s) of the Pentateuch believed that God actually created the universe in the past, Abraham migrated from Mesopotamia to Palestine, Moses parted the…

— Tremper Longman III

“The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it…

— Barbara Kingsolver