Sentence examples for documentary hypothesis from inspiring English sources
In the last quarter of the 19th century, the German biblical scholar Julius Wellhausen published his documentary hypothesis of the composition of the Hebrew Scriptures.
He reviews the "documentary hypothesis," which demonstrates pretty conclusively that the first five books of the Bible were not written by a single person (Moses, according to tradition), but actually cobbled together from four, or maybe five, different writers.
But there were plenty of Christian leaders who reacted vigorously against the Documentary Hypothesis and all that it implied.
Over the next century and a half, biblical scholars arrived at the same conclusion, and developed what's called the Documentary Hypothesis.
One piece of evidence for the Documentary Hypothesis is the fact that there are two rather different creation stories in Genesis.
The slashing hypothesis was tested during a 2005 BBC documentary, The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs.
Both the book and documentary record the search for evidence in support of Currie's hypothesis, and details are often spun in Currie's favor even when the evidence is contradictory or ambiguous.
The 2008 documentary Bloodline by Bruce Burgess, a filmmaker with an interest in paranormal claims, expands on the "Jesus bloodline" hypothesis and other elements of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
documentary photography".
