Bagricula comments on Algorithm detects multiple authors in of the Old Testament [link] - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bagricula 01 July 2011 06:10:51AM 0 points [-]

Eh. Wouldn't it also be blasphemous to compare the mind of God to the mind of men?

I don't know how Maimonides is viewed among Orthodox Jews, but his whole ineffability of God seems to cast serious doubt on the efficacy of any analysis built out of experience of human writers. Afterall, does anything in Orthodox Jewish belief preclude God from writing in multiple voices, styles, ideological agenda?

I imagine the blasphemy comes in when the authors suggest that the variation was due to variation in the "conduits" or "transmitters" of God's chosen words.