Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

documentary hypothesis

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English

Syllables: doc-u-men-tary hy-poth-e-sis
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

7

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more, usually four, originally distinct major documents.

Example Sentences

"Out of this rare discovery have sprung the documentary hypothesis, the fragmentary hypothesis, and we know not how many more hypotheses, each of which has been maintained for a time, as self-evidently true, and then exploded."

Etymology

Calque of German Urkundenhypothese.

Questions

What does documentary hypothesis mean?: The hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more, usually four, originally distinct major documents.
Where does documentary hypothesis come from?: Calque of German Urkundenhypothese.

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