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July 2015

July 08, 2015

Hamblin 26: Goose and Gander

My friend Neal Rappleye recently posted an important response to some of the things Jenkins...

June 2014

June 06, 2014

DH-39 Scholarly Consensus?

The claim is often made by supporters of the Documentary Hypothesis that there is scholarly...

June 04, 2014

DH-38 We Don’t Know

Another remarkable characteristic of the Documentarians is their unwillingness to simply admit, “We just don’t...

May 2014

May 25, 2014

DH 37- A Shrinking Theory?

One of the latest book-length defenses of the Documentary Hypothesis, Joel Baden’s The Composition of...

May 21, 2014

DH-36: Four Degrees of Speculation

Documentarians generally claim that they can: 1- identify the four different sources within the Pentateuch;...

May 19, 2014

DH-35: Literary Composition Techniques

As far as I can tell, there is no example of any other ancient Jewish...

May 16, 2014

DH-34: Dating the Sources

As I noted in DH-33, although there are various schools of thought, biblical scholars can’t...

May 14, 2014

DH-33: How Many Sources?

The classical formulation of the Documentary Hypothesis posits four written sources for the Pentateuch, called...

May 12, 2014

DH-32: Source Criticism

Modern scholars attempt to clearly indicate their sources by footnotes. Ancient scholars generally did not. ...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

DH 31: Inconsistency 2

Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that every perceived inconsistency claimed by modern biblical...

April 28, 2014

DH 30: Historicity Redux

David Bokovoy has written a response to Jeff Bradshaw's review of Authoring the Old Testament. Although...

April 28, 2014

DH 29: Inconsistency 1

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Emerson The question of textual consistency...

April 27, 2014

DH 28: Historicity 3

Ancient people did not write “history” as moderns generally understand the term. The origin of...

April 26, 2014

DH 27: Conan the Documentarian

April 26, 2014

DH 26: Argumentum ad Baculum

My newest argumentum ad baculum against the DH (from Greg Smith).

April 26, 2014

DH 26: More mistrepresentation

Over on the anonymous "Faith Promoting Rumor" David Bokovoy claimed the following: "There is a...

April 26, 2014

DH 25: Presuppositions?

In a comment on DH 21, David Bokovoy made the following statement. By what criteria...

April 26, 2014

DH 24: Text or Author?

Jupiter's Child is much exercised about my discussion of authorship and the DH. The purpose...

April 26, 2014

DH 23: Clarity in Definitions

The anonymous folks over at Patheos' "Faith Promoting Rumor" have sponsored a critique of my...

April 25, 2014

DH 22: Legitimate Differences

Despite a bit of rhetorical posturing by some of the supporters of the JEDP-Documentary Hypothesis,...

April 25, 2014

DH 21: Quot homines, tot sententiae

"As many men, so many opinions." Terence. My friend Matt Roper sent me the follow...

April 23, 2014

DH 20: Historicity 2

Historians have long realized that, epistemologically speaking, the idea of learning what “really happened” through...

April 22, 2014

DH 19: Historicity 1

When examining the question of historicity, it is important to distinguish between ontological issues and...

April 21, 2014

DH 17: What is the Documentary Hypothesis?

The discussion on DH 16 seems to have degenerated into a debate about the meaning...

April 19, 2014

DH 16: Circular Reasoning

Another methodological problem with the Documentary Hypothesis, which many scholars have noted, is that it...

April 17, 2014

DH 15: Verifiable?

The Documentary Hypothesis is not only unfalsifiable but also unverifiable. That is to say, there...

April 16, 2014

DH 14: Falsifiability?

A major methodological problem facing proponents of the Documentary Hypothesis—the Documentarians—is the question of methodology. ...

April 15, 2014

DH 13: Scholarly Consensus?

Imagine a situation where a group of doctors agree that a patient has cancer, but...

April 14, 2014

DH 12: Empirical Evidence

Empirical Evidence It is very important to realize that there is absolutely no empirical textual...

April 13, 2014

DH 11: Dating Prophetic Texts

The principles I outlined earlier in DH 9 and 10 on dating ancient texts face...