Wellhausen's hypothesis

English

Etymology

Named after the German biblical scholar and orientalist Julius Wellhausen.

Proper noun

Wellhausen's hypothesis

  1. The hypothesis that the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) was derived from originally independent, parallel, and complete narratives, which were subsequently combined into the current form by a series of redactors.
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