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    The document discusses different theories of biblical inspiration: 1) The dictation theory holds that God directly dictated the Bible word-for-word. 2) The limited inspiration theory says God guided writers but they expressed the message in their own style, so historical details may contain errors. 3) The plenary verbal inspiration theory argues God inspired the entire Bible text accurately, though writers expressed personal styles. The document also examines authorship of the Pentateuch, noting internal references to Moses as author but the documentary hypothesis proposes it was formed by independent documents J, E, P, and D contributed by multiple writers.

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    The document discusses different theories of biblical inspiration: 1) The dictation theory holds that God directly dictated the Bible word-for-word. 2) The limited inspiration theory says God guided writers but they expressed the message in their own style, so historical details may contain errors. 3) The plenary verbal inspiration theory argues God inspired the entire Bible text accurately, though writers expressed personal styles. The document also examines authorship of the Pentateuch, noting internal references to Moses as author but the documentary hypothesis proposes it was formed by independent documents J, E, P, and D contributed by multiple writers.

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    The document discusses different theories of biblical inspiration: 1) The dictation theory holds that God directly dictated the Bible word-for-word. 2) The limited inspiration theory says God guided writers but they expressed the message in their own style, so historical details may contain errors. 3) The plenary verbal inspiration theory argues God inspired the entire Bible text accurately, though writers expressed personal styles. The document also examines authorship of the Pentateuch, noting internal references to Moses as author but the documentary hypothesis proposes it was formed by independent documents J, E, P, and D contributed by multiple writers.

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    Kavya Sinha

    Professor Johns
    Old Testament
    18 January, 2011

    Hand-In Quiz

    1. “Inspiration” Theories:

    The basic belief in neo-orthodoxy is the utter transcendence of God. It holds that God is
    above us, and far beyond our limited human understanding. The bible contains the word
    of God and becomes the Word of God through people’s experiences.

    The dictation theory states that God dictated what he wanted to be written down. God
    chose select individuals to write his Word in exact words. This is a traditionally
    conservative Christian view.

    The limited-inspiration theory states that the inspired scripture is limited to certain parts.
    God guided the writers but the writers had the freedom to express the word of God in
    their style. Because of this, the historical details may contain errors but the message itself
    was safeguarded by the Holy Spirit.

    The Plenary Verbal Inspiration Theory holds that God inspired the complete Bible text,
    including both historical and doctrinal details. This view allows the point that the writers
    had the freedom to express their personalites as they wrote, so long as the message was
    still accurate.

    2. Authorship of the Pentateuch

    The Pentateuch itself contains several regarding its authorship. The book Exodus, is
    known to have been written by Moses, as is shown by the text itself in Ex 24:4,7. Moses
    also wrote the Ten Commandments, as shown in Ex 34:27. The book of Deuteronomy
    also refers to Moses as the author in several parts, ( Dt 31:9, 19,22,24). The Talmud also
    refers to the first five books as “the Books of Moses”. The New Testament also refers to
    “Moses and the prophets” as shown in Lk 24:27,44.

    The documentary hypothesis states that the Pentateuch was formed by four independent
    documents, J E P D. describes God as Yahweh, starting in Gen 2:4, it includes much of
    Genesis and parts of Exodus and Numbers. E primarily describes God as El or Elohim.
    Starting with Gen 15, it covers material similar to "J". P stands for Priestly which
    encompasses writings scattered from Gen 1 through the notice of Moses' death at the end
    of Deuteronomy

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