{"id":2096,"date":"2009-09-22T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/mosaic-authorship-of-the-pentateuch\/"},"modified":"2009-09-22T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T09:27:00","slug":"mosaic-authorship-of-the-pentateuch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/mosaic-authorship-of-the-pentateuch.html","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Thanks to the ambiguities and double entendres of the English language, I just realized that I can affirm my adherence to \u201cMosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch\u201d. I do indeed believe that the Pentateuch in its present form is best characterized as a mosaic<\/em>, created from the work of multiple authors\u2026<\/p>\n

Just to be clear, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what this<\/a><\/em> Mosaic Bible<\/em><\/a> is about, though it does look pretty cool<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to the ambiguities and double entendres of the English language, I just realized that I can affirm my adherence to \u201cMosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch\u201d. 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