Religion & Theology · Scripture & Textual Criticism
A topic within Scripture & Textual Criticism, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Religion & Theology.
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New Testament History and Literature with Dale B. Martin
Dale B. Martin (YaleCourses) · 2009
Reads the New Testament with the historical-critical method, treating the texts as first-century documents by different authors with incompatible…
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Prolegomena to the History of Israel
Julius Wellhausen · 1883
Argues the Pentateuch is a composite of four sources written centuries apart, with the priestly legal material the latest rather than the oldest…
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Dale B. Martin (YaleCourses)
Reads the New Testament with the historical-critical method, treating the texts as first-century documents by different authors with incompatible aims rather than as one book.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Bart D. Ehrman
Argues that historical method can only establish what is probable, so the historian's Jesus is necessarily a smaller and different figure from the one theology describes.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Julius Wellhausen
Argues the Pentateuch is a composite of four sources written centuries apart, with the priestly legal material the latest rather than the oldest layer — the paradigm case of applying source criticism to scripture.
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