The Documentary Hypothesis edition by Umberto Moshe David Cassuto Israel Abrahams Religion Spirituality eBooks
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Despite the passage of time, this little volume remains a classic in the filed of Biblical studies.
Though summary in form and popular in presentation, it provides a masterly exposition of the Documentary Hypothesis and subjects its exegetical methods and conclusions to a critical probe.
The writer challenges the widely-held theory that the Pentateuch is an amalgam of fragments excised from various source-documents of different authorship, date, style and outlook. . .
The Documentary Hypothesis serves as a valuable introduction to the late Professor Cassuto's Hebrew Commentaries on the Pentateuch, which have helped so much to illumine our understanding of Scripture with the light of new knowledge and interpretation, expounded by one of the most original minds among modern Biblical exegetes.
The Documentary Hypothesis edition by Umberto Moshe David Cassuto Israel Abrahams Religion Spirituality eBooks
Cassuto presents what he refers to as the five pillars of the Documentary Hypothesis. The components are variation in the name of the deity; different language and styles; contradictions; repetitions and duplications; lastly, composite structure. He says that the generic name for God in Babylon was (ilu) which translated as El, also Eloah and Elohim. Elohim (generic God) is about non-Israelites such as the Moabites, Ammonites, Ishmaelites, etc. Whereas YHWH or YHWH Elohim is used predominantly about Israel ─ the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and wherever else God is not generic but specific to Israel.For me, I was excited by Cassuto’s arguments against pillars one and three, and after starting the book, I became convinced that I was going to have to abandon the Documentary Hypothesis for good. But unfortunately for me, his attacks against pillars two, four and five were not as convincing. Perhaps it was my lack of knowledge of Hebrew grammar that let me down, but in this instance, he failed to annul the Documentary Hypothesis.
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The Documentary Hypothesis edition by Umberto Moshe David Cassuto Israel Abrahams Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
A concise and accessible
An amazing book. It is unbiased and objective. Recommend highly for anyone that wants to know more about the documentary hypothesis.
I bought this book because I had heard that the Documentary Hypothesis, particularly as it has been explained by Richard Elliott Friedman in his popular book "Who Wrote the Bible," was generally considered to have been debunked. I had expected to find a definitive argument or arguments to that effect in this book. I did not.
Not that Cassuto has no argument. He does. But Friedman's book is written for the lay person, while Cassuto's, drawn as it was from a series of academic lectures for teachers, presumes a high degree of prior knowledge and sophistication on the part of the reader. His presumption is not necessarily true for the lay person.
Written in 1941 for an intended audiece of academics, it is not surprising to find that the the prose is very dense. This makes for a difficult read and gets in the way of following his logical argument.
I have concluded that this was not the best volume for the lay person to begin a study of the debunking of the Documentary Hypothesis, and that I may have made the wrong choice for myself in that regard. I'll continue to look for other volumes on the subject.
Professor Cassatu debunks the conclusions of Julius Welhausen in a series of lectures written out clearly comprehendible by any one of the Christian or Jewish Faiths
He overviews and disproves each of the 5 pillars of the Documentary Hypothesis.
a) the use of different names for the Deity;
b) variations of language and style;
c) contradictions and divergences of view;
d) duplications and repetitions;
e) signs of composite structure in the sections.
His phrase 'irretrievably doomed' distinguishes him from others who have critiqued this century old thesis—still being tweaked and taught. He shows that no academic face lifting or support will keep this building from collapsing in on itself.
If you have read that Moses is not the author of the Torah/Penteteuch but it was authored by 5 others Jehovist, Elohist, a scribe who wrote the priestly code, the Deuteronomist and a redactor (or 2 or 3 ) that put these together.. and if you are beside yourself with rage or concern, this book is for you!
Don't read this small, but intellectually rigorous volume if you're enamored with the Documentary Hypothesis or are devoted to the Graf-Wellhausen line of thinking about the Old Testament. The postulates (more like biases) upon which the Documentary Hypothesis and other "higher criticism" of the Old Testament are based include (1) Prophecy of events far in the future is impossible, therefore prophecies found in the Old Testament (e.g., Daniel, Ezekiel...) must actually be histories written far later than thought to account for the fact that the prophecies were fulfilled so accurately. Prophecies found in the Psalms and Isaiah are often debunked as "Christians repurposing the Old Testament". (2) If different literary 'styles' are seen in a book by one author, there must have been different authors involved. (Did Picasso utilize different styles within a long art career? Does a man (like Isaiah) in his 70's necessarily have the same writing style than he had in his 20's?) (3) The scholarship used regarding the evolution of the Hebrew language from about 1600 BC to 400 BC that the Documentary Hypothesis proponents was often inadequate or errant. (4) The proponents of higher criticism for the most part ignored the Septuagint - a critical source in any comprehensive examination of the OT and its books. Since the Documentary Hypothesis came out it has suffered the embarrassment of having to be patched, fixed, re-explained and revised - often requiring more unproven postulated sources or recorders. Frequently, those teaching and supporting the Documentary Hypothesis have found themselves aligned with those who use their criticisms to demean, downgrade - often rejecting the authority of the OT as the Word of God.
It's interesting that one NT figure of note DID believe the OT, it authorships and the authority of it, That would of course be Jesus - He often quoted the OT, taught the OT and used it as if it were...true as written.
A must read book!
I like how the author uses the philological tools to endeavour a reasonable explanation for the composition of the Torah.
However, it might be noted that the author does not poses the idea of a single hand for all the masterpiece of the Torah, nor negates it. He neither says Moses wrote it. Beyond any doubt, many of the points of the traditional Documentary Hypothesis have become futile under the scrutiny of these lectures.
Nevertheless, the author opens the possibility that more than one, two, three, four, ore even more sources served as the raw material for the composition of the Pentateuch, without neccesarily implying that JEDP is the right attempt to explain the divergences and evidences of complex literature visible in the Torah.
Cassuto presents what he refers to as the five pillars of the Documentary Hypothesis. The components are variation in the name of the deity; different language and styles; contradictions; repetitions and duplications; lastly, composite structure. He says that the generic name for God in Babylon was (ilu) which translated as El, also Eloah and Elohim. Elohim (generic God) is about non-Israelites such as the Moabites, Ammonites, Ishmaelites, etc. Whereas YHWH or YHWH Elohim is used predominantly about Israel ─ the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and wherever else God is not generic but specific to Israel.
For me, I was excited by Cassuto’s arguments against pillars one and three, and after starting the book, I became convinced that I was going to have to abandon the Documentary Hypothesis for good. But unfortunately for me, his attacks against pillars two, four and five were not as convincing. Perhaps it was my lack of knowledge of Hebrew grammar that let me down, but in this instance, he failed to annul the Documentary Hypothesis.
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