Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman

His books have been translated into Hebrew, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Russian, and French. He is editor of The Creation of Sacred Literature (University of California Press) The Poet and the Historian (Harvard Semitic Studies) The Future of Biblical Studies: The Hebrew Scriptures (Scholars Press) and LeDavid Maskil (Eisenbrauns). He is the author of The Exile and Biblical Narrative (Harvard Semitic Monographs) Who Wrote the Bible? (Simon and Schuster) The Disappearance of God (Little, Brown) The Hidden Face of God (HarperCollins) The Hidden Book in the Bible (HarperCollins) Commentary on the Torah (HarperCollins) The Bible with Sources Revealed (HarperCollins) The Bible Now (Oxford) and The Exodus (HarperCollins).

He was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, was elected to membership in The Biblical Colloquium, and was president of the Biblical Colloquium West. He works in Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Ugaritic, French, and German. at the Jewish Theological Seminary and B.A. at Harvard in Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations M.H.L. He is also Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego.ĭr. He participated in the City of David Project archaeological excavations of biblical Jerusalem.

He was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge and Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, and Visiting Professor at the University of Haifa.

Already praised in America as 'fascinating', 'stimulating', 'brilliant' and 'provocative' by Bible scholars of differing religious affiliations, Who Wrote the Bible? challenges us to rethink the way we understand, value, and use the Bible today.Richard Elliott Friedman, is the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies Emeritus. He explains why there are inconsistencies in the Bible and why God is portrayed in so many and often contradictory ways. Like a skilled detective, he uncovers the identity of its writers, discovers that some of these writers knew each other, and tells how this affected, in unexpected ways, the final form the Bible took. Armed with his training as a Bible scholar and linguist, Professor Friedman combines his own understanding of the ancient world with recent archeological evidence and new methods of literary analysis to discover clues within the Bible itself that point to a solution to the puzzle of its authorship. Many have lived by it, some have died for it. It is the most influential book of Western culture and is read wherever there are people who can read. For some two thousand years, the Bible has been revered, studied, disdained and debated.

Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman