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John Barton, 16 February 1989

The Book of God: A Response to the Bible 
by Gabriel Josipovici.
Yale, 350 pp., £18.95, November 1988, 0 300 04320 1
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Who wrote the Bible? 
by Richard ElliottFriedman.
Cape, 299 pp., £12.95, June 1988, 0 224 02573 2
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... In a very straightforward, unliterary, yet, I believe, convincing way, this is demonstrated in Richard ElliottFriedman’s book Who wrote the Bible? He shows that the critics’ questions about date, authorship and original use of the various Biblical books are sometimes answerable and, what is more, worth ...

We need a better plan

Alexander Bevilacqua: Dinosaurs on the Ark, 5 March 2026

Noah and the Flood in Western Thought 
by Philip C. Almond.
Cambridge, 396 pp., £35, April 2025, 978 1 009 55722 1
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... source’ and the ‘priestly source’ so paradigmatically that the biblical scholar Richard ElliottFriedman uses it to explain the documentary hypothesis in his book Who Wrote the Bible? (1987). Other interpretative problems include dating the Flood and measuring its extent. Where did the waters come ...

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