An assessment of the alleged pre-exilic date of the Priestly material in the Pentateuch

Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 495-518

  Blenkinsopp, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 62249147507     PISSN: 00442526     EISSN: 16130103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/zatw.1996.108.4.495     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. For a Jewish view of Wellhausen see M. Weinfeld, Getting at the Roots of Wellhausen's Understanding of the Law of Israel. On the 100th Anniversary of the Prolegomena, 1979
2. on which see M. Saebo, Priestertheologie und Priesterschrift. Zur Eigenart der priesterlichen Schicht im Pentateuch, VT. S 32 (1981), 357-374
3. see also L. H. Silberman, Wellhausen and Judaism, Semeia 25 (1982), 75-82
4. On the genesis and development of Kaufmann's position on this subject, which has never had much support, see Moshe Greenberg, Kaufmann on the Bible. An Appreciation, Jdm 13 (1964), 77-89
5. E. Green, Kaufmann Yehezkel, EJ 16 (1971), 1349-1350
6. B. Uffenheimer, Yehezkel Kaufmann: Historian and Philosopher of Biblical Monotheism, Imm. 3 (1973/74), 9-21
7. J. D. Levenson, Yehezkel Kaufmann and Mythology, CJud 36/2, 1982, 36-43
8. P. Slyomovics, Yehezkel Kaufmann's Critique of Julius Wellhausen. A Philosophical-Historical Perspective, Zion 49 (1984), 61-92
9. T. Krapf, Yehezkel Kaufmann: Ein Lebens- und Erkenntnisweg zur Theologie der Hebräischen Bibel, 1990, 45-46.83-105
10. idem, Die Priesterschrift und die vorexilische Zeit. Yehezkel Kaufmanns vernachlässigter Beitrag zur Geschichte der biblischen Religion, 1992, 71-101
11. Kaufmann's major Statement is presented in Gola vaNekar, 1930
12. see P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., II Samuel, 1984, 370
13. S. R. Driver, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Deuteronomy, 1895, 300 f
14. R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel. Its Life and Institutions, 1961, 358-366
15. M. Haran, Studies in the Bible: The Idea of the Centralization of the Cult in the Priestly View (Hebr.), Beer-Sheva 1 (1973), 114-121
16. Temples and Temple Service in Ancient Israel. An Inquiry into the Character of Cult Phenomena and the Historical Setting of the Priestly School, 1978, 7-10, 132-148
17. The Character of the Priestly Source: Utopian and Exclusive Features, Proceedings of the Eight World Congress of Jewish Studies. Bible Studies and Hebrew Language, 1983, 131-138
18. S. R. Driver, An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament, 1956 [1897], 141-142
19. C. Cohen, Was the P-Document Secret?, JANES 1/2 (1968/69), 39-44
20. M. Weinfeld, Getting at the Roots of Wellhausen's Understanding of the Law of Israel; Pentateuch, Encyclopedia Judaica 13,239-243
21. A. Hurvitz, The Language of the Priestly Source and its Historic Setting - the Case for an Early Date, Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress of Jewish Studies. Bible Studies and Hebrew Language, 1983, 91-93
22. R. E. Friedman, The Exile and Biblical Narrative, 1981, 44-82
23. Sacred History and Theology: The Redaction of the Torah, in: The Creation of Sacred Literature. Composition and Redaction of the Biblical Text, 1981, 25-34
24. Z. Zevit, Converging lines of evidence bearing on the date of P, ZAW 94 (1982), 481-511
25. C. Westermann, Genesis 12-36, 1985 [1981], 261
26. On the anointing of the high priest see Ex 29,7
27. G. Galil, Priesthood and Monarchy in the Aaronid Genealogy (Hebr.), BethM 30 (1984/85), 168-172
28. R. Polzin, Late Biblical Hebrew. Towards an Historical Typology of Biblical Hebrew Prose, 1976
29. G. Rendsburg, Late Biblical Hebrew and the Date of 〉P〈, JANES 12 (1980), 65-80
30. For the former see M. Haran, The Law Code of Ezekiel 40-48 and its Relations to the Priestly School, HUCA 50 (1979), 63
31. for the latter R. E. Friedman, The Exile and Biblical Narrative, 63-64
32. Rooker, Biblical Hebrew in Transition, 132-155
33. Hurvitz, CRB 1982, 71-78, 82-84
34. Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1983, 299-303
35. see J. Milgrom, Leviticus 1 -16
36. E.g. J. Milgrom, Leviticus, 1991, 4
37. Hurvitz, HTR 1967, 117-121
38. Hurvitz, ZAW 1988, 91-97
39. and B. A. Levine, Late Language in the Priestly Source, Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress of Jewish Studies. Bible Studies and Hebrew Language, 1983, 71-73
40. The Pentateuch, 1992, 119-121, 237-243. A date in the sixth or fifth century has, of course, been standard throughout this century
41. As proposed by E. Blum, Studien zur Komposition des Pentateuch, 1990, 319-360
42. J. Blenkinsopp, The Pentateuch, 1992, 237-243. There is also the point mentioned earlier, that no source other than P and prior to Chronicles mentions Aaronite priests