Footnote 1 – Strata: In His Own Words

See Richard Elliott Friedman, “Taking the Biblical Text Apart,” Bible Review 21:05. He explains that the Documentary Hypothesis posits that “the Bible’s first books were formed through a long process. Ancient writers produced documents of poetry, prose and law over a period of many hundreds of years. And then editors used these documents as sources. From them, they fashioned the Bible we have read for some two thousand years.”