Rolf Rendtorff
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Rolf Rendtorff was Professor of Old Testament at the University of Heidelberg from 1963 to 1990. He was one of the more significant German Old Testament scholars from the latter half of the twentieth-
Rendtorff in 1990
Documentary hypothesis
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In bibliology, the documentary hypothesis is one of the models used by biblical scholars to explain the origins and composition of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible: Genesis, Exodus,
Rolf Rendtorff
…at the same time, inaugurated a heated discussion in scholarly circles on the validity of the then-dominant consensus on Pentateuchal origins, the Documentary Hypothesis. Rendtorff's work in particular has been described as "certainly one of the most important contributions to Old Testament scholarship in the twentieth…
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