In the early decades of the 20th century this debate was dominated by the documentary hypothesis.
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A study of the religious thought in the Torah entails taking a stand vis-?vis the Documentary Hypothesis.
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Jacobs was especially concerned with how to reconcile modern day Orthodox Jewish faith with the Documentary Hypothesis.
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Some secular scholars who follow the the display of Genesis according to the Documentary Hypothesis at Wikiversity.
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Friedman follows the four-source Documentary Hypothesis model, but differs significantly from Julius Wellhausen's model in several respects.
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The documentary hypothesis for this narrative portion is attributed to Yahwist ( J ), due to the use of YHWH.
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The Conservative approach tends to regard the Torah as compiled by redactors in a manner similar to the Documentary Hypothesis.
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According to the documentary hypothesis these covenants are based on the differing Jahwist, Elohist and covenant of circumcision ( conditional ).
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The non-Priestly material-the Yahwist and Elohist of the documentary hypothesis-is widely recognised as probably constituting the oldest layer of the Pentateuch.
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;c . 450 BCE : Documentary hypothesis suggests that the five books were created by combining the four originally independent sources