The Old Hypothesis and the New Synthesis

Heated arguments are waged about when the final editing was carried out, perhaps by ezra in the persian period. Others think that the deuteronomistic tradition is the heart of the early books of the bible. There has been somewhat of a revival of the documentary hypothesis in the last decade. The old hypothesis used stylistic and termonlogic, termonological marks to divide the text. New version says these are secondary criteria. Instead, plot and narrative continuity are the key markes anaut defines.