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Bewyse van die skriftelike bestaan van die boeke van die Pentateuch, synde die Genesis geskiedenis en die Mosaïese wette, al sedert die vroegste tye:
Johannes 1:17; Eksodus 24:4-7; Deuteronomium 31:9; 17:18-19; 27:2-3, 8; 31:11; Josua 1:8; 8:31-34; 23:6; 24:26.

Ons weet dat God van die begin af, die wette geskrywe het – eers op die kliptafels in die vorm van die sinopsis, die Tien Gebooie en daarna via Moses op leer- of kleitablette en voor Moses, deur Abraham.

Opgrawings en omringende feite ondersteun die Woord.

Aan die woord is dr. Clifford Wilson – argeoloog, fisioloog: “Professor G. Ernest Wright, Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Studies at Harvard University … made the point that it had become clear that the records of Moses, when dealing with covenants, must be dated back to the middle of the second millennium BC. That’s about 1500 BC. Also, that those writings should be recognized as a unity. In other words, they go back to one man. That one man could only be Moses.

I went to Professor Wright later and said, ‘Sir, this is very different from what you’ve been putting out in your own writings.’ He looked at me and said, ‘Clifford, for 30 years I’ve been teaching students coming to Harvard to train for the Christian ministry; I’ve been telling them they could forget Moses in the Pentateuch, but at least in these significant areas of the covenant documents that are there in the Pentateuch, I’ve had to admit that I was wrong.’

They were two scholastic giants. One says, ‘I’ve excavated for 30 years and I’ve never found the Bible to be in error’—basically that’s what he was saying. The other says, ‘For 30 years I’ve been wrong.’ It’s rather sad, isn’t it, that a good man such as Professor Wright had been so swept along with the ridiculous ‘documentary hypothesis’ that he had taken a wrong stand for so long.”

Daar is ’n hipotese (die agnostici is absoluut gek na hipotese, want dié kan hulle in na willekeur in fabels omskep, maar vermy feite en werklikheid soos die pes…), genaamd die “document hypothesis” dat die Ou-Testamentiese boeke en veral die Pentateuch, mondelinge oorgelewerde tradisies is (ten spyte van die duidelike Skrifverwysings hierbo vermeld wat aandui dat dit skriftelik was) wat eers later lukraak op skrif gestel is – nie net is dié hipotese onnosel nie, dit is ook onakkuraat. Indien daar werklik net mondelinge oorlewerings was wat ongeveer 450 v.C. vir die eerste maal opgeskrywe was, sou die opskrywers nie so onnosel wees om dan te verwys na die wetboeke wat Moses en Joshua, daterend uit ongeveer 1500 tot 1300 v.C., gereeld aan die volk moet voorlees (hoe lees mens mondelinge oorlewering voor?!) en opskrywe, nie. Maar daar staan dit want dit was rééds opgeskrywe. Dit is later net in ’n kompilasie geneem die Pentateuch saamgebind.

Weer dr. Wilson aan die woord:

“ ‘Sir, I hear there is a new creation tablet that has been found. Is that a fact’?’ I put my question to Professor Pettinato and, after some hesitation, he indicated that the information shouldn’t be made public. So I made the point, ‘If there is a new creation tablet you simply can’t hold it back; it must he made known.’ After thinking about it he revealed that there was indeed a new creation tablet.

I found it very interesting to hear those world-leading scholars discussing the impact this would have on what is called the ‘documentary hypothesis’.

One of those scholars, as a result of this revelation of a new creation tablet that was even earlier than Moses, declared ‘It looks like we’ve got to forget the ‘P’ document. The argument [“P” document] used to be that the creation story did not come into the Pentateuch — that Moses could not have had it. But in fact we not only find that Moses could have had it but that it was known even earlier than the time of Moses … Donald Wiseman, formerly Professor of Archaeological and Semitic Studies at London University, recently edited and revised New Discoveries in Babylonia about Genesis. It is now called Clues to Creation in Genesis. In it he acknowledges that ... through Genesis there is the regular use of a literary form called a colophon. It tells you that this is where a particular tablet ends and then another one starts. These records of early Genesis were presumably carried over the Fertile Crescent by Abraham, and eventually they were used by Moses (centuries after Abraham)”.

Dit is duidelik dat die Woord betroubaar is in alle opsigte, ook ten aansien van die skepping.

Groete,
Kobus de Klerk