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Has Richard Friedman Really Discovered a Long-Hidden Book in the Bible?

Bible Critics Respond: An Interview

Hershel Shanks: Do you agree or disagree, or don’t you know whether you agree, with Dick Friedman’s contention that J, as we have it in the Tetrateuch, is also the author of the passages he identifies in Deuteronomy and the rest of the Deuteronomistic History through Kings?
P. Kyle McCarter: In one word?
Ronald S. Hendel: Scholars can’t use just one word.

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Footnotes

1.

See “Interview with David Noel Freedman,” BAR 06:03; “How the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament Differ: An Interview with David Noel Freedman, Part I,” BR 09:06; “The Undiscovered Symmetry of the Bible: An Interview with David Noel Freedman, Part II,” BR 10:01.

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See Leonhard Rost, The Succession of the Throne of David (Sheffield, UK: Almond Press, 1982).

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See Patrick Miller and Jimmy Roberts, The Hand of the Lord: A Reassessment of the “Ark Narrative,” Johns Hopkins Near Eastern Studies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1977).

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See Baruch Halpern, “Text and Artifact: Two Monologues?” in The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present, ed. Neil A. Silberman and D. Small (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), pp. 311–341; and Halpern, “Erasing History: The Minimalist Assault on Ancient Israel,” BR 11:06.

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Frank Moore Cross is the Hancock Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University. See Frank Moore Cross, From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1998).