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Prolegomena to the history of ancient Israel

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It was written in 1882 by Julius Wellhausen (a German biblical scholar) as an attempt to explain how the Pentateuch came into being in the history of ancient Israel. He agreed to the conjecture that the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament reflect several independent "source documents" used for their composition (hence "Documentary Hypothesis"). He proposed the chronological order of the sources to be J, E, D, and P (notably shifting P's position to the last unlike his predecessors)..

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220.8 WEL p

Z. HANDIMAN

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220.8 WEL p

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New York : Meridian Books., 1958

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xvi, 552p.; 20 cm.

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English

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220.8

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BIBLE - ISRAEL, THEOLOGICAL ASPECTS

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