Analyzing The 'Documentary Hypothesis'

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The Documentary Hypothesis is intriguing to me. The Documentary Hypothesis is a theory that the Bible was not written by one author, but in fact, it was written from many sources. This theory was formulated by Julius Wellhausen, who realized that the writing style of the Bible was not the same throughout it. This lead him to analyze the Bible's style, tone, wording, etc., which lead him to the Documentary Hypothesis. By recognizing these trifling details, he was able to give an insight as to why some of the Bible passages contradict each other. Wellhausen's theory enables us to read the Bible on a deeper scale. What I mean by this is we know that there are contradictions, but we can take these passages and try to understand what was going during

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