Sir-Your correspondent Gilbert J. Johnston, B.A., thinks he can detect a "twist" in my name. By the same rule his name must be "Gilbertian." People in glass houses, etc.! He sneers at knowledge gained from cheap reprints, but is there a cheaper reprint than the Bible? He does not tell us who wrote the book of Job, simply because he does not know. Job is anonymous, but any Bible student must realise that it is not written in the Hebrew tradition, but is the result of contact with Persian and Greek cultures. The Jews were under the Persian rule for two hundred years and thus came under the influence of the disciples of Zoroaster, the great monotheistic teacher, very particularly in the doctrines of mn neg The Hebrews did not believe in the universality of God; they believed in Jahveh, the God of the Hebrews. Judaism was born about the time of Ezra and the Jews became monotheists in earnest, and the real period of priests, ceremony, and ritual begins. The Bible is a book of many periods and the redactors have named the books to suit themselves, and place them in position for purposes of their own. A prominent example is the book of Deuteronomy.
OLIVER
Te Awamutu.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 4
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