FRDB Archives

Freethought & Rationalism Archive

The archives are read only.


Go Back   FRDB Archives > Archives > Religion (Closed) > Biblical Criticism & History
Welcome, Peter Kirby.
You last visited: Yesterday at 03:12 PM

 
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 06-11-2005, 04:34 PM   #1
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Racine, Wi. USA
Posts: 768
Default Which ten commandments?

Help

I am composing a letter to the editor in rebuttal to a local fundy who wants to put the ten commandments on the school room walls. I know that there are 3 different versions of the decalogue and I have seen them examined here, but now that I need them I can't find them. I don't have time to read the whole bible tonight . Any help out there?

The Admiral
The Admiral is offline  
Old 06-11-2005, 05:39 PM   #2
Veteran Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Charleston, WV
Posts: 1,037
Default

Quote:
The Admiral:
I know that there are 3 different versions of the decalogue...
Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5, and Exodus 34. Although some apologists claim that Exodus 34 isn't intended to be an alternate Decalogue, the irony is that it is in fact the only version of the three even called the ten commandments (v:28). You could mention in your letter that Exodus 34:1 says that Yahweh was to write the commandments, yet verse 28 says that Moses wrote them.

Quote:
Exodus 34:1,27-28 (NRSV)
34:1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you broke.

27 Yahweh said to Moses: Write these words; in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. 28 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
John Kesler is offline  
Old 06-11-2005, 05:51 PM   #3
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Racine, Wi. USA
Posts: 768
Default ten commandments

Thanks John

That is exactly what I was looking for.

The Admiral
The Admiral is offline  
Old 06-11-2005, 05:55 PM   #4
Veteran Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 1,043
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Admiral
I know that there are 3 different versions of the decalogue...
Four (or six, depending how you count): the Samaritan Torah has a different set as well.
Wallener is offline  
Old 06-12-2005, 09:22 AM   #5
Regular Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: South Florida, USA
Posts: 159
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Admiral
Help

I am composing a letter to the editor in rebuttal to a local fundy who wants to put the ten commandments on the school room walls. I know that there are 3 different versions of the decalogue and I have seen them examined here, but now that I need them I can't find them. I don't have time to read the whole bible tonight . Any help out there?

The Admiral
Here's a good summary (scroll halfway down):
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.htm
Iznomneak is offline  
 

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 01:33 AM.

Top

This custom BB emulates vBulletin® Version 3.8.2
Copyright ©2000 - 2015, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.