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Why did the Documentary Hypothesis succeed? After the Babylonian captivity, the Jerusalem priests created the illusion that they (allegedly) have spoiled ancient papyri, written by different authors. From the surviving fragments of these works, they somehow collected a sacred book (allegedly). The p...

Documentary hypothesis is ridiculous Initially. Say, the pope decided to combine the four gospels into one gospel. Do Christians recognize this book as sacred?

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Do not rush to laugh. It took me four years to understand the origin of the Torah.

I have an excellent counter-hypothesis

The documentary hypothesis is dead

To designate the nation chosen by God used two terms.
1. Israel
2. Children of Israel
Why is the first term used throughout, but the second term (Children of Israel) is distributed non-uniformly?

that's what my question

(Ideological, not all Chapter 13, and its beginning)
1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.

Chapter 10: 6 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines; and left the Lord and served Him. 8 They vexed and oppressed ...

So here's the question. Why in chapter 10 Jews are referred (sometimes) to as "the children of Israel", but In chapters 11 and 12 they do not call "the children of Israel" never?