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Who Wrote the Bible
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Last discussed Aug 3, 2026
A book by Richard Elliott Friedman making the complex field of biblical textual criticism accessible to general readers, arguing the first five books of the Bible were written by multiple authors.
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Used for: Understanding the field of biblical textual criticism and how scholars identify multiple authors in the first five books of the Bible
Praised: Makes an incredibly complicated scholarly topic accessible without diluting i...
"The first book I really recommend is called Who Wrote the Bible by Richard Elliott Friedman. This book is doing something that is incredibly hard to do well — a scholar who is an expert on a very complicated scholarly topic making it not only acce..."
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