documentary hypothesis
English
[edit]
Etymology
[edit]Calque of German Urkundenhypothese.
Proper noun
[edit]- (theology) The hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more, usually four, originally distinct major documents. [ca. 1840]
- 1842, The Princeton Review, volume 14, page 205:
- Out of this rare discovery have sprung the documentary hypothesis, the fragmentary hypothesis, and we know not how many more hypotheses, each of which has been maintained for a time, as self-evidently true, and then exploded.
Translations
[edit]literary-critical theory about the Penteteuch
|