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Copyright violation

Hi, I just deleted Benvenida Abravanel as a copyright violation of this page, as your article had many sentences identical to that source. Please check WP:COPYVIO: we are not allowed to copy copyrighted texts (not even with minor modifications), and even if texts have a compatible license, we have to attribute them correctly. Our articles should be based on good sources for the information, but the actual etxt should be in our own words. Fram (talk) 09:05, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Fram, apologies - the page was a bit of work in progress & I was using the established text as placeholders as I researched new information. Appropriately, I understand that wikipedia doesn't really let you have 'draft' pages up. As such, I won't 'publish' my page until it wholly re-figures the information. Noxiyu (talk) 14:15, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

No problem. Yes, while we have sandboxes and draft space, copyright violations aren't allowed anywhere on Wikipedia. If your preferred method of creating articles is starting with an existing text and then thoroughly rewriting it, you'll need to do that off-wiki, and only bring the finished product back on-wiki. Note that such an approach in many cases has increased the risk of Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing, which is also not acceptable. Sorry to be annoying about this, but it is an important priciple of what is allowed here, and it's better that I explain the risks now than to give you the impression that nothing can go wrong! Fram (talk) 14:19, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

My proposed edit for the Hebrew Bible page.

Origins of the Hebrew Bible and its components.

The books that constitute the Hebrew Bible were developed over roughly a millennium. The oldest texts seem to come from the eleventh or tenth centuries BCE, whilst most of the other texts have been postulated as somewhat later. The oldest works, such as Exodus 15 and Judges 5 are very archaic Hebrew and celebrate Israelite victories from the time preceding the Israelite monarchy under David and Solomon, whereas other texts appear to concern later periods.

However, dating the work known as the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) is a field of study under considerable amount of debate. Documentary hypothesis has come to be known as the field of study for biblical criticism trying to ascertain the authorship and time periods of the Pentateuch. The 19th century ensured great gains made in this field, defining the topic with Julius Wellhausen providing the source hypothesis which argued that the Pentateuch consists of four sources which have been woven together. The source hypothesis argued that these four sources were combined to form the Pentateuch sometime in the sixth century BCE.

While Wellhausen's hypothesis can be considered one of the most influential biblical criticisms on dates of the Hebrew Bible, it has come to be shown to be outdated and inaccurate. The greatest consensus for Documentary Hypothesis and the authorship of the Pentateuch instead is that the first major Pentateuchal narrative was composed either late in pre-exilic times or in the Babylonian exile (7th or 6th century BCE), rather than in the early monarchy. The dates of further texts, as well as when and whom can be considered the author and curator of the Pentateuch, is still very much up to debate.

It is significant to add that although Wellhausen's work has been mostly discredited - with his few prevailing supporters failing to gain any critical achievement - we can revisit Wellhausen's hypothesis and instead attribute his work to a very different gain: instead of providing a functioning framework of understanding the dates of the bible as he attended, Wellhausen ignited the study of biblical criticism. Wellhausen provided the acceptance that an enquiry into the sources of the Pentateuch was permissible at all, i.e. that it was not ruled out by the tradition which regarded Moses as the author of the whole Pentateuch. It is because of this that Wellhausen's theory is still considered so influential, and why his name can be considered synonymous with the topic of Documentary Hypothesis.