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Making of the Pentateuch, first published in 1987, has become one of the most important books on Pentateuchal origins published in a generation. In this volume, Whybray surveys the field of Pentateuch origins first developed by Julius Wellhausen in the late nineteenth century and Hermann Gunkel in the early twentieth century. Making of the Pentateuch is divided into three sections. Part one...

PART III: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH A. A Single Author for the Pentateuch? If neither the Documentary Hypothesis nor the traditio-historical method, whether separately or in combination, provides a reliable and convincing approach to the question of the composition of the Pentateuch, we must ask whether there remains any possibility of getting behind the final text to discern the origins of the material which it contains and the process which led to its compilation. That it did not spring entirely
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