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The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over two centuries, the question of the composition of the Pentateuch has been among the most central and hotly debated issues in biblical studies. In this book, Joel Baden presents a fresh and comprehensive argument for the documentary hypothesis. Critically engaging both classic and contemporary scholarship, he fundamentally revises and reorients the documentary hypothesis. Interweaving...

“telling”—and as something of a guide for the reader, a how-to for the analysis of other pentateuchal texts. Thus each one begins with the assumption that a text is unified until shown to be otherwise and continues with the analysis through the disentanglement of the sources. Each also contains discussion of how the sources discovered in this passage fit into their respective documents as a whole, as well as engagement with alternative views. Interwoven with these case studies are five chapters dealing
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