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The hypothesis was formed from several lines of evidence suggesting that more than one author had a hand in writing the Torah.
Stage 1
The first stage was the recognition of certain passages that looked like additions from a later copyist:
Deuteronomy 34, the account of Moses' death, including the phrase in verse 6, "no one knows his burial place to this ...
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I don't think that it is a matter of "limiting" God. I guess I've never heard anyone say that the theory is invalid because it "limits God".
The primary reason for rejecting the view is, for many, simply a matter of the traditional method of understanding Scripture, and it's origins.
Put simply (perhaps too simply), it is more likely that the people ...
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