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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...

his book undoubtedly marks a new stage in the discussion in that it puts forward a real alternative to that hypothesis which purports to cover, and offer an explanation for, the entire history of the growth of the Pentateuch from its smallest units to its final form. C. Assessment of the Documentary Hypothesis 1. Presuppositions a. Philosophical and religio-historical The Documentary Hypothesis was not simply an attempt to solve a literary puzzle. The criterion to which Wellhausen attached the greatest
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