Moses and Egypt : the documentation to the motion picture the ten commandments (1956)

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Title:
Moses and Egypt : the documentation to the motion picture the ten commandments
Date:
1956
Publisher:
Los Angeles : University of Southern California Press
Volume:
Moses and Egypt : the documentation to the motion picture the ten commandments
Leaf #:
000101
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 08, 2025
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THE HOLY SCRIPTURES The Old Testament a) Early transmission and composition.1 Long before the art of writing became known to the ancient Hebrews, stories of the Creation, the Flood, the lives of the patriarchs and important events that befell them were told by word of mouth from generation to generation. Quite early, too, some independent scribe wrote on stone, papyrus or leather the story of a tribal tradition or a leader set down some legislation. The earliest elements of the Old Testament were in the form of poetry. No original has ever been found, but their existence can be detected in the present text by experts. The form in which we know the first six books of the Bible today is, according to many Bible scholars, the final composition of several separate narrative, legislative and priestly source materials, fused into one. Though all of the Old Testament books can also be considered Near-Eastern literature, they were not written or edited with that intention. The purpose was edification, the establishment of monotheism and religious unity. The attempt to set down in continued written form the early tradittons of the Hebrew people did not take place till the ninth century B.C. At that 73 Bibliography: a ) Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (New York, 1948), II, 288-293. b) J. Moffatt, The Bible: A New Translation ( New York, 1935), pp. ix-xvi. c) Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago, 1951), III, 502-503.