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  • From: Søren Holst <sh AT teol.ku.dk>
  • To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] documentary hypothesis, overview?
  • Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:54:59 +0200

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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