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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
A Jewish friend tells me that Wellhausen was an anti-Semite whose overall aim was to discredit the Torah as historical and moreover debase the contribution of Jews to Western civilization.
It seems that in some ways Cassuto is the apologist who "undoes" Wellhausen.
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Cassuto is important though because he took a scholarly approach to the Documentary Hypothesis. What followed thereafter was fascinating.