[Avodah] neviim v. moshe; any difference in their writings??

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:12:33PM -0700, harveybenton at yahoo.com wrote:
: hb: does that mean that Moshe Rabeinu A" Hashalom, included an ancient
: scroll or various texts into the Chumash as we now have it...

No, it means the RBSO did!

And that's the essence of the answer to your question. Neviim interpreted
visions -- they weren't capable of the kind of communication necessary
to receive a book from HQBH.

It is possible (and within the mesorah) to assert that parts of the
Torah are redactions from earlier works -- if one assumes that it was
"al pi Hashem beyad Mosheh". Not that MRA"H did it in a manner the least
bit comparable to sifrei nevu'ah.

See <http://www.aishdas.org/toratemet/en_torah.html> by RGStudent.
He lists megillos mentioned by name in the Chumash that were written
by earlier nevi'im or by Mosheh himself. Eldad uMeidad are described
in the pasuq as being among those authors (Bamidbar 11:26).


I don't think this is what he himself believes, just an efshar lomar
for someone who finds the issues that led to the Document Hypothesis
compelling.

(He also suggests that the stories we find in midrashim could be the
legacy of the texts that didn't make it into HQBH's redaction.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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