Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wellhausen's hypothesis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: well-hausen's hy-poth-e-sis
IPA

38

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The hypothesis that the Torah (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.

Etymology

Named after the German biblical scholar and orientalist Julius Wellhausen.

Questions

What does wellhausen's hypothesis mean?: The hypothesis that the Torah (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.
Where does wellhausen's hypothesis come from?: Named after the German biblical scholar and orientalist Julius Wellhausen.

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