More Recent Scholarship on Who Wrote the Pentateuch

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More Recent Scholarship on Who Wrote the Pentateuch
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More Recent Scholarship on Who Wrote the Pentateuch

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I am now nearly finished talking about the “Documentary Hypothesis” devised by scholars of the Hebrew Bible to account for the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.  I have already discussed the traditional view developed in the nineteenth century, especially as it was laid out by Julius Wellhausen (the JEDP hypothesis).   But that was a long time ago.  What do scholars say today? Read by Sam Devis

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