The various opinions regarding the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, for instance, do not constitute a "crisis" in Qumran studies. It is perhaps overly dramatic to refer to the existence of two competing schools of thought as a "crisis." It is, after all, difficult to think of a single aspect of biblical scholarship in which there are not dissenting opinions, contradictory readings, or diverse historical reconstructions. See Also: The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis (Anchor Yale Reference Library New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012). It is once again taking its place as a significant theory of the composition of the Pentateuch. The Documentary Hypothesis, abandoned in much pentateuchal scholarship of the last 40 years, is making a significant resurgence, although in a new and more precisely argued form.
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