{"id":26536,"date":"2014-10-09T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=26536"},"modified":"2014-10-09T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T16:07:27","slug":"conservative-illustration-of-pentateuchal-composition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/10\/conservative-illustration-of-pentateuchal-composition.html","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Illustration of Pentateuchal Composition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I recently read an assignment which drew on sources critical of the Documentary Hypothesis. Ironically, the assignment was in fact plagiarized from a number of online sources. And at least one of those sources in turn clearly plagiarized from another.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a bit of text:<\/p>\n

The J, or Jehovahist, document (usually known as the Yahwehist document) supposedly was written around 850\u00a0<\/span>B.C.<\/span>, and was characterized by its use of the divine name\u00a0<\/span>Yahweh<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span>Elohim<\/i>\u00a0is the divine name that identifies the E, or Elohist, document, purportedly written around 750\u00a0<\/span>B.C.<\/span>The D, or Deuteronomist, document contained most of the book of Deuteronomy and was supposed to have been written around 620\u00a0<\/span>B.C<\/span>. The last section to be written was the P, or Priestly, document, which would have contained most of the priestly laws, and allegedly was written around 500\u00a0<\/span>B.C.<\/span>\u00a0We are told these documents were then redacted (edited) into one work about 300 years later in 200\u00a0<\/span>B.C.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This appears essentially verbatim in at least two places online. One is an Apologetics Press article by Eric Lyons<\/a>. The other is an article by Jacob Gaddala in the Journal of Dispensational Theology<\/em><\/a>. Since both cite Henry Morris, in theory both could have plagiarized from that common source, in which case both the L and G sources would be duplications from the common source M. But in fact, a more likely scenario is that M was used by L, and L was then used by G. The verbatim agreement is not\u00a0in the triple tradition, but is between G and L. Since L is dated to 2003, and G to 2011, the most likely scenario is that the latter plagiarized from the former. And I believe that it was G that was in turn plagiarized by the source that I recently read, the author of which will remain anonymous.<\/p>\n

But seriously, how can anyone think that they can make a case against the use of sources by lifting material out of a source?!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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