Who Wrote the Pentateuch?

Who Wrote the Pentateuch?

Rachel Portnoy Bradley shared the following in a comment on Facebook, in response to my post about JEPD as four-part harmony:

In my intro to OT class, we were required to do an โ€œart projectโ€ โ€” something creative about what weโ€™d learned that quarter. A group of us got together and sang, โ€œWho wrote the Pentateuchโ€ to the tune of โ€œWho wrote the book of love,โ€ talking about the various sources. I only remember for sure the refrain, โ€œTell me, tell me whoโ€ฆ who who who whoโ€ฆ who wrote the Pentateuchโ€ฆโ€ฆโ€ and then snippets of the verses, like โ€œthe J-source was a realistโ€ฆ.โ€ and โ€œthe E-source was a dreamerโ€ฆ.โ€ and โ€œwe donโ€™t know much about the P but they were probably all menโ€ or something like that.

If there is no one who actually still has the lyrics to that, perhaps I and/or others should try to recreate it? It seems like it could be pedagogically useful, as well as entertaining.

I also noticed (as one does) that one can easily sing about Abรฉlard and Hรฉloรฏse to the tune of โ€œEbony and Ivory.โ€ Just sayingโ€ฆ


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