Jeremy Thompson

Tag: Pentateuch

  • Collins on Systematizing the Material in the Pentateuch

    Have been re-reading through John Collins’ Introduction to the Hebrew Bible off and on lately.  Here is a passage I read last night I thought worthy of citation: The Biblical text that resulted from this process (the final editing together of diverse material) is not a consistent systematic treatise.  Rather, it is a collection of…

  • James McGrath on the Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch (Funny)

    Okay this is one of those things that got me laughing.  I realize that my sense of humor is not normal, but that’s okay.  This may not be for everyone.  I read this title on one of James McGrath’s posts in the RSS feed for his blog – “Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch.”  I have…

  • Harriet A. Harris on Fundamentalism and Evangelicals

    Recently, I posted pointed out what I felt was an instance of fundamentalism on the Desiring God blog. And, after a bit of conversation on FaceBook I think it might be helpful to explain the way that I use the term fundamentalism. For this term, I follow the approach of Harriet A. Harris who has…

  • Fundamentalism and Anachronism at Desiring God

    Yesterday there was a post on the Desiring God blog about “boring” passages in the Bible (why they put boring in quotes I don’t know; I would just call them boring), especially the Pentateuch.  There is so much wrong with the particular details of this post that it is difficult to really know where to…