Transcription of Documentary Hypothesis
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1 Documentary Hypothesis Notes from: 1. JOHN BARTON, "Source Criticism," The Anchor Bible Dictionary [ ~eslinger/ ] 2. 3. http:// "SOURCE CRITICISM. [VI, 162] Formerly called literary criticism or higher criticism, source criticism is a method of biblical study, which analyzes texts that are not the work of a single author but result from the combination of originally separate documents. This method has been applied to texts of the Old Testament (especially but not exclusively the Pentateuch) and New Testament (especially but not exclusively the gospels). This entry surveys the application of this method to those texts .
In narrative texts it may be impossible to extract a coherent sequence of events. For example, in Gen 12:1, Abram is told to leave Haran after the death of his father, Terah. ... whole work was assembled from only four underlying sources, three of them continuous, parallel accounts of …
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