Gordon Wenham Gordon Wenham, who is well known by regular Themelios readers, is now Professor of Old Testament at Cheltenham and Gloucester College On the face of it, the study of the Pentateuch is in ferment. New interpretations of narrative and law are constantly being proposed in journal articles, and large tomes keep appearing which challenge or reaffirm conventional hypotheses about the composition of the Pentateuch. But this only underlines the fact that no new paradigm or scholarly consensus