DOCUMENTARY HYPOTHESIS THEORY by German scholar Julius
Wellhausen in 1877 states: The 5 books of 'Moses' are composed of J dating to the 9th or 10th century BCE. E composed in the 8th century BCE D is dated to 7th century BCE written during the time of King Josiah. P dates between the 6th and 4th century BCE. Before, during or after the Babylonian exile. |
Richard Elliott Friedman "Who Wrote The Bible"
makes a plausible argument from literary and archaeological evidence suggesting
that J was written in the royal court of Judah (mayhap by a woman) as early as the reign of David or Solomon. E was the work of a Levitical priest in the kingdom of Israel between 922 and 722 BCE P was penned in the court of King Hezekiah between 727 and 698 BCE D may have been the scribe Baruch a close associate and sometime ghostwriter for the prophet Jeremiah and the final redactor of the 5 books of Moses. |
It appears to me a lot of information concerning the
‘text’ of the bible is hypothesis (working theory) |