In fact, no manuscript evidence of the J,E,P,D-documents or any of the other supposed fragments have ever been discovered and there are no ancient Jewish commentaries that mention any of these imaginary documents or their alleged unnamed authors. However, the ‘documentary theory’ sequence is only based on an evolutionary theory popularized by German archeologists during the World War II to struggle against Jewish and Christian fundamentalism. Wellhausen (1895), was accepted by the majority of academic scholars for many years without notable controversy. 600 BCE), and the Priestly source, or P (c. 450 BCE by combining four originally independent sources, known as the Jehovist, or J (c. The ‘documentary theory’, which suggests that the five books were created c.
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