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On-line Resource T. Desmond Alexander, Pentateuchal Criticism Today: A Guidebook for BeginnersT. Desmond Alexander, Pentateuchal Criticism Today: A Guidebook for Beginners. RTSF Monographs. Leicester: Religious and Theological Students Fellowship, 1998. ISBN: 01870137264. Pbk. pp.83. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the author]
Book or monograph Allis: The Five Books of MosesOswald T. Allis [1880-1973], The Five Books of Moses. Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., Phillipsburg, New Jersey, 1949. Repinted: Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 1579108512.
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Joel S. Baden, The Composition of the PentateuchJoel S. Baden, The Composition of the Pentateuch. Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis. New Haven, CT: Yale Univesity Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780300152647. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Exploring the Composition of the PentateuchL. S. Baker Jr., Kenneth Bergland, Felipe A. Masotti & A. Rahel Wells, eds. Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781646020683. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
Article in Journal or Book Christopher T. Beggs, "A Bible Mystery: The Absence of Jeremiah in the Deuteronomistic History," Irish Biblical Studies 7.3 (1985): 139-164.
Book or monograph H. Bloom (with D. Rosenberg), The Book of J. New York: Westminster, 1984.
Book or monograph U. Cassuto, The Documentary Hypothesis, trans. I. Abrahams. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1961.
On-line Resource Duane L. Christensen & Marcel Narucki, "The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 32.4 (Dec. 1989): 465-471. View in PDF format pdf
Book or monograph A Farewell to the Yahwist?: The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European InterpretationThomas B. Dozeman & Konrad Schmid, eds., A Farewell to the Yahwist?: The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation (Society of Biblical Literature - Symposium Leiden: Brill, 2006. Hbk. ISBN: 9004137661. pp.208.
On-line Resource A.H. Finn [1854-1938], "The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuch," Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute 50 (1918): 32-58. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
On-line Resource Duane A. Garrett, "The undead hypothesis: why the documentary hypothesis is the Frankenstein of Biblical studies," Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 5.3 (Fall 2001): 28-41.
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Green: The Higher Criticism of the PentateuchWilliam Henry Green, The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch. New York: Scribner's, 1908. Reprinted: Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1997.ISBN: 9781725207530. pp.214. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Philippe Guillaume, Land and CalendarPhilippe Guillaume, Land and Calendar. The Priestly Document from Genesis 1 to Joshua 18. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. ISBN: 9780567401205. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
On-line Resource David R. Hildebrand, "A summary of recent findings in support of an early date for the so-called Priestly material of the Pentateuch," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 29.2 (June 1986): 129-138.View in PDF format pdf
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Isaac M. Kikawada & Arthur Quinn, Before Abraham WasIsaac M. Kikawada & Arthur Quinn, Before Abraham Was: The Unity of Genesis 1-11. Ignatius Press, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0898702399. Reprinted: Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2017. ISBN: 9781498276757. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
On-line Resource Samuel R. Külling, "The dating of the so-called 'P-sections' in Genesis," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 15.2 (Spring 1972): 67-76.View in PDF format pdf
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Paul Lawrence, The Books of Moses RevisitedPaul Lawrence, The Books of Moses Revisited. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011. ISBN: 9781498269926. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
On-line Resource Archibald McCaig [?-1936], "The Use of the Divine Names in the Pentateuch: An Examination of the Higher Critical Theory," The Evangelical Quarterly 2.1 (Jan. 1930), 14-32. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Book or monograph S.E. McEvenue, The Narrative Style of the Priestly Writer. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1971.
Article in Journal or Book E.W. Nicholson, "P as an originally Independent Source in the Pentateuch," Irish Biblical Studies 10.4 (1988): 192-206.
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Rolf Rendtorff, The Problem of the Process of Transmission in the PentateuchRolf Rendtorff, The Problem of the Process of Transmission in the Pentateuch. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1990. ISBN: 9780567610492. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
On-line Resource Why is There a Documentary Hypothesis, and What Does It Do to You If You Use It?: A Response to David Clines (Allan Rosengren)
On-line Resource Archibald Henry Sayce [1846-1933], The 'Higher Criticism' and the Verdict of the Monuments. London: SPCK / New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1894. Hbk. pp.575. [This material is in the Public Domain]
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Konrad Schmid, Genesis and the Moses Story. Israel's Dual Origins in the Hebrew BibleKonrad Schmid, Genesis and the Moses Story. Israel's Dual Origins in the Hebrew Bible. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9781575066035. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Austin Surls, Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of ExodusAustin Surls, Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus. From Etymology to Literary Onomastics. University Press, PN: Penn State University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781575064840. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
Book or monograph R.J. Thompson, Moses and the Law in a Century of Criticism Since Graf. Leiden: E J Brill, 1970.
Article in Journal or Book Bruce K. Waltke, "Oral Tradition," Walter C. Kaiser & Ronald F. Youngblood, eds., A Tribute to Gleason Archer. Chicago: Moody Press, 1986. Hbk. ISBN: 0802487807. pp.17-34.
On-line Resource Allan Menzies [1845-1916], translators, Prolegomena to the History of Israel with a Reprint of the Article Israel from the "Encyclopaedia"Julius Wellhausen [1844-1918], John Sutherland Black [1846-1923] & Allan Menzies [1845-1916], translators, Prolegomena to the History of Israel with a Reprint of the Article Israel from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica". Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1885. Hbk. pp.552. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Article in Journal or Book Gordon J. Wenham, "Genesis: An Authorship Study and Current Pentateuchal Criticism," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 42 (1988): 3-18.
On-line Resource Gordon Wenham, "Pentateuchal Studies Today," Themelios 22:1 (October 1996): 3-13.
On-line Resource Harold M. Wiener [1875-1929], The Origin of the PentateuchHarold M. Wiener [1875-1929], The Origin of the Pentateuch. London: Elliott Stock / Oberlin, OH: Bibliotheca Sacra Company, 1910. Pbk. pp.152. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]

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