Robert E. Wallace, Ph.D.

Tag: Composition

  • Source Criticism

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    For a discussion on source criticism in an upper level Torah class, I provided a email from me to my dissertation supervisor from late in my PhD program. The email had several quotes in it from different readers on the committee which I was responding to (without providing quotation marks). I had stripped away dates and replaced…

  • Formation of the Pentateuch

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    The students read a list of scriptures, some which implied Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch (2 Chron 23:18; Joshua 23:6, 2 Kings 14:6; Ezra 6:18) and others that would cast doubt on Mosaic authorship as the sole source of the text. I think there was benefit in having the students work with primary texts and…

  • Important Texts

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    I had the students divide into groups and develop a concept map between the significant texts mentioned in the videos: Masoretic Text, Septuagint, Vulgate, Tyndale Bible, King James Version. I didn’t give any specific directions on how to connect the texts. The concept maps were very creative. The early classes tended to be rather simple…

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