documentary hypothesis

name

Etymology

Calque of German Urkundenhypothese.

  1. derived from Urkundenhypothese

Definitions

  1. The hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more, usually four, originally…

    The hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more, usually four, originally distinct major documents.

    • Out of this rare discovery have sprung the documentary hypothesis, the fragmentary hypothesis, and we know not how many more hypotheses, each of which has been maintained for a time, as self-evidently true, and then exploded.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for documentary hypothesis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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