Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Søren Holst <sh AT teol.ku.dk>]

Can anyone recommend a "key" to what's considered Prietsly, Yahwistic etc. in 
the Pentateuch? I don't particularly want to start a discussion on the 
*validity* of the documentary hypothesis, I'm simply interested in showing 
students an easy way to find out what adherents of the hypothesis *mean*, 
when they say "J source" etc.
    I know only of the three listed below myself. Eissfeldt confusingly has a 
fourth "layman's source" (a sort of proto-J) in addition to J, E and P, and 
of course cannot take into account later scholarship (like, is E and J really 
one source?), so it's a bit confusing for the uninitiated. Smend is fine for 
reading the presumed J and P sources as consecutive documents, but 
troublesome to look things up in. And I haven't been able to lay my hands on 
Campbell/O'Brien (it's at the library of Aarhus University the other end of 
Denmark, where all the good books seem to be hidden away).
     Could there be a web site out there, that I've overlooked, which 
collects all the information?

kol tuv
Soren


*       O. Eissfeldt, Hexateuch-Synopse, Leipzig: Hinrich's, 1922
*       R. Smend, Alttestamentliches Lesebuch, Hamburg: Siebenstern, 1974
*       Campbell, A. F. og M. A. O'Brien, Sources of the Pentateuch. Texts, 
Introductions, Annotations, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1993
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