Dating Deuteronomy: The Wellhausen Fallacy (Biblia.com)

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The Torah was recognized as a unit before the separation between the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. This book challenges established biblical scholarship derived from two assumptions of the Wellhausen Fallacy: a) Deuteronomy could not have been written before the time of Josiah (650 BCE); b) The existence of a group of redactors in the fifth century BCE or later. The first premise is based on the...

“The book of Joshua is historico-theological fiction. The primary purpose of its authors was to present a theological construct.”129 Coogan does not cite any evidence for the existence of such group of authors. The book of Joshua is rejected as historical source on the following grounds: a.Archaeological evidence contradicts the book of Joshua. Archaeological excavations did not find any evidence of a mass destruction of Canaanite cities. In fact, at the time of the supposed invasion there were no

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