Thread:Superdadsuper/@comment-5590118-20160118105355/@comment-5590118-20160118211525

JEPD is indeed a theory only because the authors of the bible did not keep records of who wrote what but from a scholarly and an academic point of view it is rather clear that the bible itself not only is not an accurate historical record of the past but was not written by just one person.

In fact a lot of the stuff in the bible is contradicted by archaeological findings and verified historical records of the peoples living around the rather small kingdom of Judah.

It is my opinion and the opinion of quite a lot of doctoral theologians/linguists that the bible not only wasn't written by Moses but simply could not have been written by Moses. The linguistic and stylistic differences are simply too great between the first few books to make that a possibility.

Not only that but each book differs greatly in how it tells stories and how it portrays God. One portrays God as a being that can communicate and influence humans directly while the another depicts them as not being able to communicate directly with humans and thus has to use a physical proxy in order to speak with them (e.g. the bush).

The reason I ask if it is covered here is because it is a very strong theory among academics when talking about how the bible actually came to be which lead me to think that perhaps this site would at the very least brush over the topic.