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    The Priestly source (or simply P) is perhaps the most widely recognized of the sources underlying the Torah, both stylistically and theologically distinct...
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    originally independent documents: the Jahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, and Priestly sources, frequently referred to by their initials. The first of these, J, was...
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  • holding that the Torah was composed by using four different sources—Yahwist, Elohist, Priestly, and Deuteronomist—that were combined into one in the Persian...
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    Jahwist (redirect from J-source)
    of the most widely recognized sources of the Pentateuch (Torah), together with the Deuteronomist, the Priestly source and the Elohist. The existence...
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    Elohist (redirect from Elohist source)
    is one of four source documents underlying the Torah, together with the Jahwist (or Yahwist), the Deuteronomist and the Priestly source. The Elohist is...
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  • Deuteronomist (redirect from D source)
    the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers (based on the Priestly source and the Jahwist), and independently of the historical Books of Chronicles...
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    genealogy of Cain is attributed to the Jahwist source, while the genealogy of Seth is attributed to the Priestly source. The J list and P list contain seven pairs...
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  • footballer Miranda Priestly, a character in The Devil Wears Prada Paul Priestly, a character in EastEnders Priestley (disambiguation) Priestly source, one of the...
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  • certain passages of the Bible, which textual scholars ascribe to the Priestly Source, assert that it is only the descendants of Aaron known as Aaronim who...
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    This Lamech appears in the Yahwist genealogy (the line of Cain); the Priestly source has another Lamech who is the father of Noah. This Lamech is distinguished...
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    hypothesis accepts "three sources or literary strata within the Pentateuch," which have come to be known as the Yahwist (J), the Priestly Writer (P), and the...
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    Torah (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    independent sources, which were later compiled together by a redactor: J, the Jahwist source, E, the Elohist source, P, the Priestly source, and D, the...
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    Holiness code (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    addition to the Priestly source. This source is often abbreviated as "H". A date generally accepted by the proponents of the four-source hypothesis is sometime...
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    Genesis flood narrative (category CS1 Hebrew-language sources (he))
    as late as the 3rd century BCE. It draws on two sources, called the Priestly source and the non-Priestly or Yahwist, and although many of its details are...
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    these censuses during the Exodus, some source-critical scholars place their authorship in the period of Priestly Source, which Richard Elliot Freedman dates...
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  • came from four sources: the Yahwist (abbreviated as J), the Elohist (E), the Deuteronomist (D) and the Priestly source (P). Each source was held to tell...
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  • different uses when the Book of Genesis was compiled from its Jahwist and Priestly sources. Following the Genesis flood narrative, a large multi-branched genealogy...
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  • 11. The documentary hypothesis attributes these genealogies to the Priestly source. Abram and Sarai prospered materially but they had no children. Abram...
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    stories drawn from different sources. The first account, in Genesis 1:1–2:3, is from what scholars call the Priestly source (P), largely dated to the 6th...
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  • Urim and Thummim (category CS1 Hebrew-language sources (he))
    the author of the passage, which textual scholars attribute to the priestly source, was not actually entirely aware of what they were either. Nevertheless...
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  • present in the Priestly Source except for the Holiness Code. Under the documentary hypothesis, while some scholars believe that the Priestly Code was created...
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    The Priestly Blessing or priestly benediction (Hebrew: ברכת כהנים; translit. birkat kohanim), also known in rabbinic literature as raising of the hands...
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  • from the JE source, and the version in the Book of Numbers being from the Priestly Source; the latter account, like the Priestly Source in general, is...
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  • originating from a religiopolitical group similar to that behind the Priestly source, and at a similar date. According to some biblical scholars, the Torah's...
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  • originating from a similar religiopolitical group and date to the priestly source. According to some biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's...
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    The priestly breastplate or breastpiece of judgment (Hebrew: חֹשֶׁן ḥōšen) was a sacred breastplate worn by the High Priest of the Israelites, according...
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    Ishmael (section Sources)
    field of source criticism believe that the stories of Ishmael belong to the three strata of J, or Yahwist source, the P, or Priestly source, and the E...
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  • complex history; its final form is possibly due to a Priestly redaction (i.e., editing) of a Yahwistic source made sometime in the early Persian period (5th...
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  • there is no agreement over the non-Priestly source(s). Genesis is a post-exilic work combining "Priestly" and "non-Priestly" material. Exodus is an anthology...
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    Tower of Babel (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    held that the two chapters were written by different sources, the former by the Priestly source and the latter by the Jahwist. However, that theory has...
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