tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165107432011-04-21T15:46:20.052-07:00sandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021911289128454210noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16510743.post-1126287327603075422005-09-09T10:25:00.000-07:002005-09-09T10:40:04.746-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;">I have discovered that I knew what Documentary Hypothesis was even though I didn't! It gives a pretty good explaination of a lot of the things I was already noticing in Genesis. -- The God as "we" thing, 2 different stories of creation, etc... Documentary Hypothesis would also explain the ever changing views of God in the Bible. Whichever view was popular at the time a section was written (whether political or otherwise) would be the view that was included in the writing. For more info. on E and J and all those other writers, I found two sites most helpful and easy to understand. Take a look <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/2/Judaism/jepd.html">site one </a>or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis">site two </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16510743-112628732760307542?l=sandys212gibberish.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021911289128454210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16510743.post-1126195839568404722005-09-08T09:00:00.000-07:002005-09-08T09:10:39.570-07:00Okay, I have no idea what I'm doing, but here I go anyway.-----<br /><br />I was just wondering if anyone else picked up on the subtle references to polytheism in Genesis. I was constantly asking myself, "if God is only one person, why does He continually use the phrases 'we' and 'our'?" I'm thinking a little bit of the left-over beliefs are still in the Bible. Perhaps he's talking about the counsel of the gods that the mesopotamians believed in. There are, after all, a lot of alters being built all over the place, and those mesopotamians sure loved their alters. I think the polytheism makes it a much more interesting story. That and Lot offering his poor virgin daughters to an angry mob. Gods running around, rape and murder everywhere. I love this book. More later.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16510743-112619583956840472?l=sandys212gibberish.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021911289128454210noreply@blogger.com3