The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
8. Why Are There Anonymous, Pseudonymous, and Fictitious Texts in the Bible?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Philippe Guillaume [+]
University of Berne
Philippe Guillaume is Lecturer at the University of Berne. His latest publications are A History of Biblical Israel co-authored with Ernst Axel Knauf (Equinox, 2016) and Deuteronomy in the Making, Studies in the Production of Debarim, edited with Diana Edelman, Benedetta Rossi and Kåre Berge (De Gruyter, 2021).
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Did Moses write Genesis? Baruch the scribe may have written down Jeremiah’s words, but who was the Hosea to whom the Hosea scroll is ascribed? The writers of biblical books did not sign them but enhanced the authority of their work by ascribing them to fictitious authors.