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Products>The Bible with Sources Revealed: A New View into the Five Books of Moses

The Bible with Sources Revealed: A New View into the Five Books of Moses

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, 2024
ISBN: 9780061951299
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This groundbreaking volume of the Five Books of Moses shows and explains how the source texts were compiled: “A fundamental resource” (Peter Machinist, Harvard University).

For centuries, biblical scholars have worked on discovering how the Bible came to be. The consensus among a broad range of experts is known as The Documentary Hypothesis: the idea that ancient writers produced documents of poetry, prose, and law over many centuries, which editors then used as sources to fashion the books of the Bible that people have read for the last two thousand years.

In The Bible with Sources Revealed, eminent scholar Richard Elliott Friedman offers a new, visual presentation of the Five Books of Moses—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—unlocking the complex and fascinating tapestry of their origins. Different colors and type styles allow readers to easily identify each of the distinct sources, showcasing Friedman's highly acclaimed and dynamic translation.

This unique Bible provides a new means to explore the riches of scripture by:

•Making it possible to read the source texts individually, to see their artistry, their views of God, Israel, and humankind, and their connection to their moment in history
•Presenting the largest collection of evidence ever assembled for establishing and explaining the Documentary Hypothesis
•Showing visually how the Bible was formed out of these sources
•Helping readers appreciate that the Bible is a rich, complex, beautiful work as a result of the extraordinary way in which it was created.


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  1. Jeremy Gunter

    Jeremy Gunter

    12/25/2024

    I am glad this resource is available. I do have a few items of feedback though: 1. It's understandable that the print version uses only two colors, and that is probably to save money on printing costs. The print version uses standard, bold, italic, and highlight to distinguish between the 10 different hypothetical sources. However, there is absolutely no reason why an electronic version should be limited to just blue and green when it wouldn't affect the production costs at all to use 10 different colors to help the reader easily distinguish between the different sources. Is there some sort of contractual reason Logos didn't? 2. In the book, the P source and Dtr2 source are both bold blue text, but one is a sans serif font, and the other is a serif font. In this version, there is no difference between the two, so unless the reader is pretty well aware of where to find the two sources, it would be impossible to distinguish between the two. That's a pretty big oversight. That issue exists on Amazon as well, so I am guessing that's how the resource came to Logos, but it really needs to be fixed. The physical book I'd give a 3.5 out of 5 stars. Even if you don't agree with the documentary hypothesis, it is helpful to be familiar with it, and this book really helps lay it out. However, because there are only two colors, it is extremely hard to intuitively know which color plus font modifier (standard, bold, italic, highlight) means what. The electronic version, however, I'd give only 2.5 out of 5 stars (rounding up to 3) because of the font issue mentioned above for P vs Dtr2, and because there really is no good reason why there isn't an individual color for each source.
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