Julius Wellhausen

Julius Wellhausen
Born(1844-05-17)17 May 1844
Died7 January 1918(1918-01-07) (aged 73)
EducationGöttingen
ChurchLutheran
Offices held
Professor of Old Testament at Göttingen, Greifswald, Halle and Marburg
TitleDoctor

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.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Cardozo, Nathan Lopes. "On Bible Criticism and Its Counterarguments". Torat Emet.
  2. ^ "Did Moses Write the Pentateuch?".
  3. ^ Friedman, Richard Elliott (1986). Who Wrote the Bible?. Harper Collins. p. 26.