The problem with DH is: unless one already possesses the sources, any attempt to reconstruct hypothesized sources from a ”daughter“ document cannot help but be artificial with a high probability of being wrong. The division along postulated differences in theology or style is no less artificial than according to how God is addressed.
For example, years ago when I read a splitting apart of the story of the flood into J and E sources, I was struck by how strange and disjointed the stories were (to use your words). But as a whole, it fits together perfectly, albeit with a certain amount of redundancy not uncommon in other narratives.
In closing, until a copy of one of these sources in Hebrew is found, it seems best to limit our discussion to the documents that we have.
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