Day 3 - Tenth Day of Christmas
Read | Genesis 9:1 - 10:32 | 1 Chronicles 1:8-23 Background | To understand the reading of the Pentateuch or the first five books of the Bible, scholars for many years have claimed a "Documentary hypothesis" to explain the seemly strains of differing work within the text. Wikipedia explains... The documentary hypothesis ( DH ), sometimes called the Wellhausen hypothesis , proposes that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible ) was derived from originally independent, parallel and complete narratives, which were subsequently combined into the current form by a series of redactors (editors). The number of these narratives is usually set at four, but the precise number is not an essential part of the hypothesis. The hypothesis was developed in the 18th and 19th centuries from the attempt to reconcile perceived inconsistencies in the biblical text. By the end of the 19th century it was generally agreed that there wer...