The Documentary Hypothesis

Document hypothesis was founded by julius velhausen in the 18 hundred and it takes on various forms. The general idea behind it is that there were multiple source texts in the first five books of the bible that were then woven together to be in the final context we have. And that those five books actually reflect a 500 to 800 b c view of the ancients, the ancient israelites. They do not predate the times of the kingsand the prophets, which is what they claim, but rather that they were written during the 508 hundred b c period. So essentially it undermines all the historical records in the old testament and flips the narrative. If you if you get rid