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Yeah, literary criticism is able to parse these things out.

I once reviewed a paper I wrote in school on Existentialism. I then reviewed a paper I wrote a year later on Jean-Paul Sartre, and then a paper on the failure of secularism to provide a meaningful axiology. An interesting set of observations are evident: The style of writing is clearly different. The word choices are different, The emphases are different. The argumentation is logically different, and sentence structure is different.

Now, these are three papers, on the same basic subjects, written within 18 months of each other, in the same geographical setting.

Based on the same crap that literary criticism uses to analyze biblical passages, one can only conclude that I am mistakened and that three different people with three different agendas wrote these papers.

Literary criticism is without a doubt one of the most asinine disciplines in ancient documentary review. It is basically a license to bring your own ignorant prejudices to the text and find a way to justify them.