Hexateuch
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Origin of Hexateuch
First recorded in 1875–80; hexa- + (Penta)teuch
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The share which each of these is supposed to have had in the six first books of the Bible is given in the final appendix, a "Synoptical Table of the Hexateuch."
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various
Addis, Documents of the Hexateuch, ii. pp. 208-213; Carpenter and Harford-Battersby, The Hexateuch, i. pp. 157-159, 168, Bezold, Bab.-Assyr.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
In rough strokes I have sought to place before the reader's view the contrast between the beginning and the end of the tradition of the Hexateuch.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
The analysis or the Hexateuch into several distinct original documents is a purely literary question in which no article of faith is involved.
From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Gladden, Washington
Presbyterian Review:" "The critical analysis of the Hexateuch is the result of more than a century of profound study of the documents by the greatest critics of the age.
From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Gladden, Washington
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