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Some DH on Noah and the Flood

A source comparison of Noah and the Flood Narrative.

The Flood Story in J and P: An Example of the Documentary Hypothesis

The flood story in Genesis 6-9 is a text that can be analyzed along the lines of the Documentary Hypothesis. According to the hypothesis, the flood story is the result of weaving [...]

Is this the Torah that Moses Gave?

Here is a matter where the halakha is decided according to a variant reading the Talmud had that is not in the masoretic text of today’s Torahs

And, most significantly, sometimes the Talmud bases laws on the spelling of particular words (e.g., the number of compartments required in the head tefillin),17 yet the spelling differs from [...]