You didn't know who wrote it, where, when, how, why, and someone says to you, "I want you to draw some conclusions about that piece of writing.

你不知道是谁，在哪里，什么时间，怎么样，为什么要写,然后你被要求对篇文章，做一个总结。

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I want you to draw some conclusions about its authorship and the way it was compiled or composed." And so you pick it up and you start reading and you notice features like this.

关于作者的身份，以及创作的方式,做一个总结,带着这些问题，开始读书的时候，你会发现这样的特点。

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The historical critical method, and the documentary hypothesis in particular, are not inherently biased, I want to make that point very strongly. They are simply analytical tools: look at the text and its features and draw some conclusions based on what you're finding.

这里我想要特别强调的是，历史的批判性研究方法,尤其是底本学说，本身是不带偏见的,它们只是分析工具，对文本及其特征进行评判,然后根据你的发现作出结论。

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