Introduction

History in the bible is a podcast dedicated to unravelling the origins of the many biblical texts. In episode one point three, i talked about how johan salamo semla founded what we now call the historical criticism of the bible. Julius welhausen was a christian german theologian who wrote his most influential works in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Vellhausen felt that there were so many inconsistencies and duplications in the biblical texts that it was inconceivable that a single author was them.