wellhausen believed unnamed author was a redactor of the first five books of moses.
wellhausen believed unnamed author was a redactor of the first five books of moses.
who does wellhausen believe is a redactor of the first five books of moses?
unnamed author
as friedman himself says in his "who wrote the bible?", when a scholar agrees with the documentary hypothesis, he agrees with wellhausen; when he wishes to propose a new model of the hypothesis, he compares it with wellhausen. friedman agrees with wellhausen on the identity of the four sources, and on the identification of certain possible or probable authors: jeremiah and/or his scribe, baruch ben neriah, as the author of d, ezra as the redactor. (these identifications in fact were made long before wellhausen: the identification of the redactor with ezra can be traced to spinoza in the 17th century or even jerome in the 4th). where he departs most radically from wellhausen is in dating p to the time of hezekiah, almost a century before josiah and the d source. wellhausen's placing of p after d, so that the sequence of sources was jedp, was crucial to the view of the development of israelite religion from original polytheism to judaic monotheism; friedman's reordering of the sources is thus his major challenge to wellhausen's model, as it undermines wellhausen's thesis that the priestly code represents the final development of a priest-centred religious practice. friedman's dating of j to the time of the divided kingdom - wellhausen put it in the 10th century bc rather than the 8th - is also novel, but less so than his ordering of the sources.
the bible with sources revealed
theologian antony f. campbell says source criticism's most influential work is julius wellhausen's "prolegomena zur geschichte israels" ("prologue to the history of israel", 1878) which sought to establish the sources of the first five books of the old testament. wellhausen correlated the history and development of those five books, known as the pentateuch, with the development of the jewish faith. the documentary hypothesis, also known as the "jedp" theory, or the wellhausen theory, says the pentateuch was combined out of four separate and coherent sources known as "j" (which stands for "yahwist", which is spelled with a "j" in german), "e" (for "elohist"), "d" (for "deuteronomist"), and "p" (for the "priestly source"). old testament scholar karl graf (1815–1869) suggested the "p" in 1866 as the last stratum of the wellhausen theory. therefore, the documentary hypothesis is sometimes also referred to as the "graf–wellhausen hypothesis". later scholars inferred more sources, with increasing information about their extent and inter-relationship.
biblical criticism