13.2 Comment
Regarding
the origins of the Pentateuch, since the 19th century the research
was dominated by so-called “new documentary hypothesis”. This assumed four main
sources of the Pentateuch (JEDP). However, later some of the assumptions and
results of the theory were questioned (the existence of the Elohistic source,
the dating of the Yahwist). Moreover, other methods and approaches developed,
namely the form criticism, the redaction criticism, the history of traditions
and approaches which emphasize the canonical form of the text.