The Bible with Sources Revealed Quotes

“this subject and in my Who Wrote the Bible? The collection of evidence here is not a review of that history of the subject. It is a tabulation of the evidence that has emerged that establishes the hypothesis.”
― Richard Elliott Friedman, The Bible with Sources Revealed: A New View into the Five Books of Moses

“6:4. YWHH is one. In comparing Israel's monotheism to pagan religion, we must appreciate the difference between one and many is not the same sort of thing as the difference between two and three or between six and twenty. It is not numerical. It is a different concept of what a god is. A God who is outside of nature, known through acts in history, a creator, unseeable, without a mate, who makes legal covenants with humans, who is one, is a revolution in religious conception.”
― Richard Elliott Friedman, The Bible with Sources Revealed

“when I have presented this subject in university classes, I have tried to be as sensitive to the feelings of my fundamentalist and orthodox students as possible. The goal was not to shake them up or produce faith crises.”
― Richard Elliott Friedman, The Bible with Sources Revealed: A New View into the Five Books of Moses