`  :The Documentary hypothesis article doesn't appear to share the view that it's been largely discredited.  It sounds more like the hypothesis has evolved with time as more evidence has been uncovered.  It could be argued that the specific original framework of the documentary hypothesis has been ``discredited``, but it would be more accurate to say that scholars have developed the DH to incorporate new evidence, much in the same way that (to bring in 's earlier example) the modern synthesis of evolution has been developed and extended over the years from Darwin's original theory.  :As an aside, away from biblical scholarship itself, there's not a jot of evidence (bar the content of religious texts) that the ostensible subject of this article ever existed.  While we're furiously getting tied up in knots on where different interpretations of said religious texts take us, the matter of actual evidence seems to be getting quietly forgotten about.  Of course, that's just my ``liberal`` POV ...  Cheers,  `