Pentateuchal Source and Redaction Analysis
Read a passage from Genesis–Deuteronomy under three models of composition side by side, with the points where they disagree.
Enter a passage from Genesis–Deuteronomy. The tool reads it under three models of composition, side by side.
There is no consensus model of how the Pentateuch was composed. Every result gives three parallel readings: the Documentary Hypothesis in its classical and neo-documentarian forms (Friedman; Baden, Stackert, Schwartz), the Supplementary Hypothesis (Van Seters) and the P/non-P compositional models (Blum, Schmid, Gertz, Carr). These are AI-generated summaries of how each model works, not attributions made by the scholars named.
- Documentary / neo-documentarian — four once-independent sources (J, E, D, P) combined by a redactor or compiler
- Supplementary — no E; a late Yahwist supplements earlier tradition and P supplements the Yahwist
- Compositional (P / non-P) — P is the secure layer; non-P material is blocks of tradition and later compositional layers
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