Footnote 1 – The Rise and Fall of the Dead Sea

A cornerstone of modern critical Biblical scholarship is the Documentary Hypothesis, which claims that the Pentateuch is a composite of four sources from different times and places, who used different names for God. The four are “J,” the Yahwist source; “E,” the Elohist source; “P,” the Priestly source and “D,” the Deuteronomist source.