What do you think of the scholarly view that the Old Testament is a work of men, filled with fraudulent passages?
Many modern scholars have argued that the Old Testament was written by men to justify or strengthen their political ambitions, or, at best, was a hopeful means of justifying the importance of Israel. As part of this view, it is argued that passages of fulfilled prophecy were all written after the fact, fraudulently in essence. In general, the authorship of Old Testament books is questioned. For example it is said that the Moses had little to do with the books of Moses, but that they were written much later by various priests to strengthen their position, and it is likewise argued that books such as Isaiah were written by multiple people. Great and foundational stories, such as the miraculous exodus from Egypt, probably never have really happened, but were invented by later generations and exploited by priests inventing books of scripture. One very influential scholar who has espoused some of these views is Richard Elliott Friedman, author of Who Wrote the Bible (New York: HarperCollins
