Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

Dear Paul,
I recommend Richard Friedman's book, Who Wrote the Bible?"
He has a chart at the back. I think people have combined his J and E
now, so the  two you should find are J and P. P is the priestly writer,
and J is the so-called Yahwist. P wrote Gen 1-2:4, and J wrote 
Gen 2:5 to the end of 4 I believe. You have both P and J intertwined 
in the Noah story. Have you noticed that?
Liz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Heinrich [mailto:heinrich AT med.usyd.edu.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 6:08 PM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: STORY LINES IN GENESIS
> 
> 
> I have been listening in on the conversation of this list from the side
> for a couple of months, and I must say the variety is astounding.  My
> own interest in BH is as an amateur kindled during a stint as a mitnadev
> in Israel during the Yom Kippur War. My question may be basic, or may
> have been handled before I joined the list, so pardon if this is the
> case.
> 
> The issue: I have been going through Genesis till the end of the story
> of Abraham for a year now, and discovered what has obviously been long
> known, namely, that an editor had stitched together the accounts of at
> least two, probably several writers.  Being slightly obsessive, I
> divided up the text according to where I saw different writers entering
> and leaving the picture, and came up with 2 main story lines, lots of
> cutting and pasting, and a wide-eyed prophet from the writing team of
> the Book of Enoch sailing into the room at Gensis 6, declaiming wildly
> for 6 verses and sailing out again.
> My question: I have no training as a Biblical scholar, and I would like
> to compare my interpretation with what scholarship has determined.  That
> includes allocation of verses to different writers or writing
> traditions.  Where should I go for this information, or does anyone out
> there have that information themselves?
> 
> Paul Heinrich
> 
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