Ezekiel & H: Nonlinear Influence #ezekiel #holinesscode #documentaryhypothesis #hebrewbible #oldtestament #pentateuch #intertextuality
Ezekiel & H: Nonlinear Influence #ezekiel #holinesscode #documentaryhypothesis #hebrewbible
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August 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Ezekiel & H: Nonlinear Influence #ezekiel #holinesscode #documentaryhypothesis #hebrewbible #oldtestament #pentateuch #intertextuality
I taught the Bible as a historical document for years. I don't think that means what they think it means. #DocumentaryHypothesis #Authorship #Pastiche #TheRedactor
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document. (Via KOCO 5 News)
June 27, 2024 at 6:42 PM
I taught the Bible as a historical document for years. I don't think that means what they think it means. #DocumentaryHypothesis #Authorship #Pastiche #TheRedactor
A Facebook debate on the Pentateuch turned into a lesson in how misunderstood biblical scholarship remains.
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#DocumentaryHypothesis #DeconstructingFaith #BiblicalCriticism #Atheism #CriticalThinking
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#DocumentaryHypothesis #DeconstructingFaith #BiblicalCriticism #Atheism #CriticalThinking
When Faith Debates Facts: The Documentary Hypothesis and the Fear of Doubt
How one online exchange revealed the real divide between belief and understanding.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
A Facebook debate on the Pentateuch turned into a lesson in how misunderstood biblical scholarship remains.
durandboshoff.substack.com/p/when-faith...
#DocumentaryHypothesis #DeconstructingFaith #BiblicalCriticism #Atheism #CriticalThinking
durandboshoff.substack.com/p/when-faith...
#DocumentaryHypothesis #DeconstructingFaith #BiblicalCriticism #Atheism #CriticalThinking
If Moses killing the Egyptian followed immediately after Exodus 1:12 in J, then the source gave no introduction to who Moses was or his parents. (Baden 2012:74)
I expected an eminent professor's treatise "reviving the #DocumentaryHypothesis to persuade me, but it's having the opposite effect.
I expected an eminent professor's treatise "reviving the #DocumentaryHypothesis to persuade me, but it's having the opposite effect.
March 20, 2026 at 2:57 AM
If Moses killing the Egyptian followed immediately after Exodus 1:12 in J, then the source gave no introduction to who Moses was or his parents. (Baden 2012:74)
I expected an eminent professor's treatise "reviving the #DocumentaryHypothesis to persuade me, but it's having the opposite effect.
I expected an eminent professor's treatise "reviving the #DocumentaryHypothesis to persuade me, but it's having the opposite effect.
Statements like this (pictured) don't persuade me of the soundness of your #DocumentaryHypothesis theory. The immediately preceding verse says Jacob lived in Egypt for 17 years, and the author gives no argument why that verse belongs to a different source, merely assertion.
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March 20, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Statements like this (pictured) don't persuade me of the soundness of your #DocumentaryHypothesis theory. The immediately preceding verse says Jacob lived in Egypt for 17 years, and the author gives no argument why that verse belongs to a different source, merely assertion.
#HebrewBible
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Okay, here's a silly argument (p.69-70 of Baden's Composition of the Pentateuch):
Sarah "says explicitly that she is barren-'Yahweh has kept me from bearing' (16:1)-a concept unique to J" and justified in note 114 (pic).
What is inability to conceive?
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#HebrewBible #DocumentaryHypothesis
Sarah "says explicitly that she is barren-'Yahweh has kept me from bearing' (16:1)-a concept unique to J" and justified in note 114 (pic).
What is inability to conceive?
1/4
#HebrewBible #DocumentaryHypothesis
March 20, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Okay, here's a silly argument (p.69-70 of Baden's Composition of the Pentateuch):
Sarah "says explicitly that she is barren-'Yahweh has kept me from bearing' (16:1)-a concept unique to J" and justified in note 114 (pic).
What is inability to conceive?
1/4
#HebrewBible #DocumentaryHypothesis
Sarah "says explicitly that she is barren-'Yahweh has kept me from bearing' (16:1)-a concept unique to J" and justified in note 114 (pic).
What is inability to conceive?
1/4
#HebrewBible #DocumentaryHypothesis
I realized that one model for the #DocumentaryHypothesis is Tatian's treatment of the four gospels in his #Diatessaron . But if we only had the Diatessaron, would we be able to reconstruct four gospels, using Hebrew Bible scholar methods? The answer is no, in part because gospels share material.
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March 20, 2026 at 12:37 AM
I realized that one model for the #DocumentaryHypothesis is Tatian's treatment of the four gospels in his #Diatessaron . But if we only had the Diatessaron, would we be able to reconstruct four gospels, using Hebrew Bible scholar methods? The answer is no, in part because gospels share material.
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I'm entertained by a scholar arguing for the #DocumentaryHypothesis objecting to the Supplementary Hypothesis because it implies that the redactors are incompetent. If the redactors were competent, there would be no evidence to support the Documentary Hypothesis...
#HebrewBible #BiblicalStudies
#HebrewBible #BiblicalStudies
March 16, 2026 at 4:19 AM
I'm entertained by a scholar arguing for the #DocumentaryHypothesis objecting to the Supplementary Hypothesis because it implies that the redactors are incompetent. If the redactors were competent, there would be no evidence to support the Documentary Hypothesis...
#HebrewBible #BiblicalStudies
#HebrewBible #BiblicalStudies
Reading Joel Baden's Composition of the Pentateuch (2012), I am less than persuaded. I am not a reactionary who would reject any source criticism a priori. I appreciate his emphasis that a documentary hypothesis is only accepted if it most plausibly explains the text's shape.
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March 12, 2026 at 11:19 PM