For each critic, the charts list their major publications (covering the period 1753–1897), their view of the author / compiler / redactor of the Pentateuch, their source analysis, and their historical-critical conclusions.

Included critics and the dates of their key publications: Jean Astruc (1753); Johann Eichhorn (1780-83), Karl Ilgen (1798), Alexander Geddes (1792, 1800), Johann Vater (1805), Wilhelm DeWette (1805, 1807), Heinrich Ewald (1823, 1843, 1848), Hermann Hupfeld (1853), Eduard Riehm (1854), Karl Graf (1865), Abraham Kuenen (1870), and Julius Wellhausen (1877, 1878, 1889, 1897).