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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...

years is to see it as an expression of the theological standpoint of Deuteronomy or of the Deuteronomistic History. In this view we see a total reversal of the earlier critical consensus of opinion. For both the documentary critics and the tradition-historians it had been common ground that the book of Deuteronomy (virtually the same as D) stood apart from the rest of the Pentateuch as an alien block of material. Noth’s hypothesis of a Deuteronomistic History (which included Deuteronomy) as a work
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