The documentary hypothesis (DH) is one of the models used by biblical scholars to explain the origins and composition of the Torah (or Pentateuch, the...

existing corpus of work. It serves as a revision to the earlier documentary hypothesis, which proposed that independent and complete narratives were later...

A hypothesis (pl.: hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. A scientific hypothesis must be based on observations and make a testable and...

are thought to postdate the Book(s) of Samuel (according to the Documentary Hypothesis), this would suggest Chronicles is making its claim based on religious...

the 20th century, there was a scholarly consensus surrounding the documentary hypothesis, which posits four independent sources, which were later compiled...

or editors). This in turn amounted to a major challenge to the Documentary Hypothesis, the dominant theory concerning the origins of the Pentateuch. At...

: 95  The Wellhausen hypothesis (also known as the JEDP theory, or the Documentary hypothesis, or the Graf–Wellhausen hypothesis) proposes that the Pentateuch...

scholars held to the documentary hypothesis until the 1980s. Since then, a number of variations and revisions of the documentary hypothesis have been proposed...

uses various names for the God of Israel.: 102  According to the documentary hypothesis, these variations are the products of different source texts and...

several parts of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament). The documentary hypothesis considers the sources for the Pentateuch (the first five books of...

fragmentary hypothesis may refer to: The fragmentary hypothesis of the Pentateuch as an alternative to the documentary hypothesis or supplementary hypothesis Multi-source...

Elliott Friedman or Joel S. Baden, support a revised version of the documentary hypothesis, holding that the Torah was composed by using four different sources—Yahwist...

by the authors to write the first five books of the Bible. The documentary hypothesis, that priestly editors wove several independent source narratives...

sources identified by the documentary hypothesis were, in fact, pre-exilic; if this were proven, he believed, then the hypothesis itself was dis-proven....

mid-20th century, the documentary hypothesis had gained nearly universal consensus among scholars. According to the documentary hypothesis, the Pentateuch was...

interpretation of the ten commandment texts. Julius Wellhausen's documentary hypothesis (1883) suggests that Exodus 20–23 and 34 "might be regarded as the...

tradition. This narrative portion is attributed to Yahwist (J) by the documentary hypothesis due to the use of YHWH. In the expulsion from Eden narrative a dialogue...

voice. This approach stands in contrast to the adherents of the Documentary Hypothesis (JEDP Theory), which holds that different passages in the narratives...

According to the documentary hypothesis, the Elohist (or simply E) is one of four source documents underlying the Torah, together with the Jahwist (or...

criticism that culminated in Julius Wellhausen formalising the documentary hypothesis in the 1870s, which identifies these narratives as the Jahwist,...

Genesis 5, Genesis 10:1–7, 20, 22–23, 31–33, and Genesis 11. The documentary hypothesis attributes these genealogies to the Priestly source. Abram and Sarai...

The simulation hypothesis proposes that what one experiences as the real world is actually a simulated reality, such as a computer simulation in which...

The Kenite hypothesis, or Midianite–Kenite hypothesis, is a hypothesis about the origins of the cult of Yahweh. As a form of Biblical source criticism...

of Cain's brother Seth found in Genesis 5:1-32. In terms of the Documentary hypothesis, the genealogy of Cain is attributed to the Jahwist source, while...

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For the former, he is credited as one of the originators of the documentary hypothesis. Wellhausen was born at Hamelin in the Kingdom of Hanover. The son...

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constitutes a rather extreme version of sex outside marriage." In the 2006 documentary The Root of All Evil? Part 2: The Virus of Faith, Richard Dawkins condemned...

scholars who follow Wellhausen and the Documentary hypothesis, since the central basis of the Documentary hypothesis is that the Pentateuch is mostly a work...