Playlist: Documentary Hypothesis (topic)
Numbers (Part One): Journey in the Desert
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughThe Documentary Hypothesis, commonly known as JEDP, is the modern critical approach that says the Old Testament was written, edited, and collected from several authors: a Yahwist, an Elohist, a Deuteronomist, and a Priestly writer. Scholars who cut their teeth on it see no structure in Numbers and call it a hodge-podge of …
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part One)
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughThe Documentary Hypothesis is scholarly imagination run amok. Critical scholars claim Genesis 2:4 begins a second, contradictory creation account written by someone other than Moses, a "Jehovist" who used YHWH, while Genesis 1 came from an "Elohist." They later added a Priestly author and a Deuteronomist, giving the JEPD theory. …
The Holiness Code
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughThe Documentary Hypothesis is the idea, held by most theologians, that the Pentateuch was written by different people at different times and compiled later. It originated with liberal German Higher Critics of the last century, who set out to deconstruct and humanize the Bible and explain it away. They assigned various acronyms …