Your views on JEDP hypothesis?

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Diego Maes's picture
Your views on JEDP hypothesis?

What do you guys think about the JEDP hypothesis? (Documentary hypothesis)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis

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watchman's picture
@ DiegoMoreno...

@ DiegoMoreno...

JEDP IMHO somewhat dated.... BUT it does show how so much of the Talmud/Old Testament was constructed from other extant religious ideas /groupings and bolting them together to create a "mongrel" creed to be utilised for the specific purpose of defining/controlling a nation state.

It also explains how so many pagan ,polytheist references ended up in the supposed Holy Text of the one true God.

Diego Maes's picture
Thanks for the reply.

Thanks for the reply.
I'm very interested in this hypothesis, but I don't know in what level it's "accepted" and accurate.

watchman's picture
@D-M....

@D-M....

This hypothesis has been around for a long time now .... so it is not surprising that some areas of it have been superseded by subsequent discoveries / developments....

However ,as far as I'm aware ,nothing yet has debunked / disproved the basic premise ... and it still provides the "scaffolding" for several lines of enquiry /research.

MCDennis's picture
Who knows. The books are

Who knows. The books are copies of copies of copies by unknown authors. This is nothing more than hair splitting. Until and unless someone can proves there is a god and that this god wrote or ''divinely inspired'' the torah to be written, who cares who wrote it AND who cares what it says.

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DiegoMoreno,

DiegoMoreno,

Some of the original assumptions about who wrote what eventually fell into doubt but the main idea is still valid. I've never seen a reasonable alternative explanation for the peculiar duplication of material in the Pentateuch. A few years ago I took in a lecture by a noted Bible scholar who offered a new framework for the hypothesis. So, don't be conned into abandoning it. It has not been refuted!

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