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. A. Definitions Modern literary conventions forbid plagiarism, and require authors to identify and acknowledge any material they have borrowed from another writer.
the kinds of minor inconsistency that scribes were apt to correct when copying manuscripts, and the textual critic needs ... difficulty is explained if the story in Genesis 12 is drawn from a different source from the genealogical information in Genesis 11. Thematic inconsistency arises when a text seems to give expression to two incompatible ...
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