What Is the JEDP Theory, and Why Do I Think It Is Wrong?
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1063. The JEDP theory, also called the documentary hypothesis, is the most influential and, in my judgement, the most damaging conclusion that source criticism has ever produced. It proposes that the five books of Moses were not written by Moses at all, but were assembled centuries later from four originally separate, anonymous documents, labelled…