English Explanatory Dictionary

Wellhausen's hypothesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  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.

Word forms

Wellhausen's hypothesis

Etymology

Named after the German biblical scholar and orientalist Julius Wellhausen.

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