in Genesis and Exodus, its main body stretches, uninterrupted except for Exodus 32–34, from Exodus 25 to Leviticus 10. The documentary hypothesis proposed a different theology for the Scriptures as well as a different historical order for its parts. A basic theological presupposition of the classic documentary hypothesis was that the earliest (preexilic) forms of Israelite religion (especially J) held that individual people could interact with God personally and directly. There was little need for