Критика документальной гипотезы происхождения Пятикнижия со стороны Умберто Кассуто. Часть 2

Богословский вестник. 2021. № 4(43). С. 18–35.

Fridman I.

The present article, in its subject matter and in the way of dealing with the subject,
constitutes a direct continuation of the article by I. Fridman bearing the same title which was
published in the «Theological Herald» of Moscow Theological Academy, № 4 (35) (2019). In this
preceding article the author’s attention was concentrated on the criticism to which U. Cassuto
subjected the first of the «pillars» of the Documentary Hypothesis (singled out by himself), to wit —
the peculiarities of using the Divine names in the text of the Pentateuch. In the present article
the author’s attention is focused on investigating the four remaining «pillars» of the hypothesis,
namely — the variations of language and style within the Pentateuch, the contradictions and
divergences of view, the duplications and repetitions as well as the traces of composite structure
in some of the sections of the Torah. In the concluding part of the article the author draws the
reader’s attention to the influence exercised by Cassuto’s ideas upon the Bible studies worldwide
in the second half of the 20th as well as the beginning of the 21th centuries.

Keywords: библеистика, Пятикнижие, Pentateuch, Bible studies, библейская критика, Шестикнижие, документальная гипотеза, У. Кассуто, Ю. Велльгаузен, biblical criticism, Hexateuch, Documentary Hypothesis, U. Cassuto, J. Wellhausen, language and style of the Pentateuch, duplications and repetitions, sections of the biblical text, язык и стиль Пятикнижия, внутренние противоречия в тексте Пятикнижия, повторы сюжетных линий, секции библейского текста