Documentary hypothesis
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The documentary hypothesis is one of the models used by biblical scholars to explain the origins and composition of the Torah. A version of the documentary hypothesis, frequently identified with the G
11th-century CE manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, showing Exod. 12:25-31, with each verse of the original Hebrew Torah text followed by its Targum (Aramaic) translation
Julius Wellhausen
Mosaic authorship
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Mosaic authorship is the Judeo-Christian tradition that the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, were dictated by God to Moses. The tradition probably began with the legalist
Moses by José de Ribera (1638)
Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis, an 1843 painting by J. M. W. Turner
Rembrandt Saint Matthew and the angel