Who Wrote the Bible? The Documentary Hypothesis

Scholars have concluded Moses didn't write the Five Books of Moses. Who did?

The “Documentary Hypothesis” is the most widely accepted explanation of the Bible's authorship among modern scholars. Although Moses was traditionally considered the author of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Torah, or Pentateuch,) in this lecture we look at historical, archaeological, mythological, and literary evidence that suggests many different sources were compiled primarily during the Babylonian exile, many centuries after Moses would have lived, if he was a historical figure at all.

Learn more about this topic in these lectures:
Who Wrote Genesis    • Who Wrote Genesis?  
Who Built Solomon's Temple?    • Who Built Solomon's Temple?  
The Ten Commandments    • What Were the Original Ten Commandments?  
Paganism in the Bible    • Paganism in the Bible  
Before God Was God    • Before God Was God  
Akhenaten and Egyptian Monotheism    • Akhenaten and Egyptian Monotheism  

00:00 Announcement
00:45 Noah's Ark / Creation / Ten Commandments
25:10 Torah / Pentateuch
35:20 Literary Criticism
53:00 Documentary Hypothesis
1:20:00 Q&A


Recorded live at Toronto Centre Place, March 12, 2019. Find out more at www.centreplace.ca

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