This Verein series is on Biblical Criticism. Criticism is defined as analysis expressing opinion based on proven data. We will define Bible as The Five Books of Moses, Prophets, and Writings, a book containing these documents in chronological order, the TANACH. As we read documents we must distinguish between History, factual past events, Myths, stories made up to justify beliefs, and all literature between. Our religious literature is composed of these “hybrids”.

 

In this first Who Wrote the Torah?" session we are discussing the Documentary Hypothesis that says, in short that 5 different authors contributed to the Torah as we know it today.