A review by backlogbooks
Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman

informative

5.0

Very informative overview on biblical scholarship, focusing on the first five books of the Bible. It was organized in a way that made sense & helped with the concepts—it starts with an overall introduction to the academic investigation into biblical authorship, and how they distinguish source texts from each other within the bible, and then with each source text gave a chapter on the time period on which it was written before explaining the investigation into the author of the specific source text. I found it really interesting, and appreciated the last chapter, which goes back to considering this section of the bible as a whole after having split it into its parts for the bulk of the analysis. 
Also, appreciate being filled in on the drama between rival priest factions in biblical history, very important to me to know that the golden calf story was a dig at Aaron  🤣