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Wellhausen's hypothesis
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Named after the German biblical scholar and orientalist Julius Wellhausen.
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Wellhausen
's
hypothesis
The hypothesis that the
Torah
(the first five books of the
Bible
) was
derived
from originally independent,
parallel
, and
complete
narratives
, which were subsequently
combined
into the current form by a series of
redactors
.
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