Concept
Julius Wellhausen
Overview
Julius Wellhausen (17 May 1844 – 7 January 1918) was a German biblical scholar and orientalist. In the course of his career, his research interest moved from Old Testament research through Islamic studies to New Testament scholarship. Wellhausen contributed to the composition history of the Pentateuch/Torah and studied the formative period of Islam. For the former, he is credited as one of the originators of the documentary hypothesis.
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- Antisemitism
- University of Göttingen
- Moses
- New Testament
- Old Testament
- Philology
- Protestantism
- Torah
- Theology
- Biblical criticism
Place in the tradition
Part of Humanism.