For those already knowledgable in religious studies, Friedman doesn't really offer too much that's very new.
If you are a person (and I have met many) who honestly believes that every word of the Bible (in every translation) is the exact word of God, written down in God's own hand, for God's own reasons- then I definetly would encourage you to buy this book (and read it!). Many Christians, for example, believe that the scribes who recorded the first books of the Bible were filled with the Holy Spirit. I want to strongly emphasize that Friedman's ending is especially apt, in that he reminds his readers that although he attempts (through a combination of careful Scriptural analysis and archaeological evidence) to identify the various people who might have first written down a number of books in the Bible, he never once disputes the fact that the authors might have been inspired by God. Friedman uses the Documentary Source Hypothesis, which is a theory that the Torah, or first five books of the Bible, were not composed by Moses or even by a single person but that they are instead a compilation of at least four sources (usually called J, E, P, and D).
Overall, I liked it very much however, I am a religious history major, so most of the book was not new to me.
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