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JE was created when J and E were combined and edited together, by an unidentified redactor, referred to as R < sup > JE </ sup >.

The DH asserts that this occurred, after the destruction of the Northern Kingdom of Israel in c. 722 BC.

According to this theory, refugees from the Northern Kingdom who held the E text, came into Judah which held the J text.

The two sources were subsequently unified, in order to preserve both traditions, yet still hold by one book of Moses.

R < sup > JE </ sup > seems to have omitted parts of E, and perhaps some of J in the process ; though he may have had a fragmentary E source to begin with.