documentary hypothesis

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英文释义

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  1. The hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more, usually four, originally distinct major documents.
    — Out of this rare discovery have sprung the documentary hypothesis, the fragmentary hypothesis, and we know not how many more hypotheses, each of which has been maintained for a time, as self-evidently true, and then exploded.

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Calque of German Urkundenhypothese.
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