a premature and uncritical rejection of longstanding traditions associated with the Bible. At its first intervention, the Commission judged that the modern arguments used to support the Documentary Hypothesis were insufficiently strong to overturn the tradition of Mosaic authorship. The Commission did not thereby insist that Moses penned the entire text of the Pentateuch with his own hand, but it considered several scenarios to be compatible with the traditional thesis: (1) Moses may have utilized
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