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).
particular term, and treating it simply as a synonym for “underlying literary document." Details of Documentary Hypothesis Literary analysis shows that one person did not write the Pentateuch. Multiple strands of tradition were woven together to produce the Torah.
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