documentary hypothesis
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English
Etymology
Calque of German Urkundenhypothese.
Proper noun
- (theology) The hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more, usually four, originally distinct major documents.
- 1842, The Princeton Review, volume 14, page 205:
- 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.
Translations
literary-critical theory about the Penteteuch
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