documentary hypothesis
nameEtymology
Calque of German Urkundenhypothese.
- derived from Urkundenhypothese
Definitions
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
Vish — recursive loop
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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