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Document Details : Title: Dating the Yahwist’s History Subtitle: Principles and Perspectives Author(s): VAN SETERS, John Journal: Biblica Volume: 96 Issue: 1 Date: 2015 Pages: 1-25 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.96.1.3183408 Abstract : In order to date the Yahwist, understood as the history of Israelite origins in Genesis to Numbers, comparison is made between J and the treatment of the patriarchs and the exodus-wilderness traditions in the pre-exilic prophets and Ezekiel, all of which prove to be earlier than J. By contrast, Second Isaiah reveals a close verbal association with J’s treatments of creation, the Abraham story and the exodus from Egypt. This suggests that they were contemporaries in Babylon in the late exilic period, which is confirmed by clear allusions in both authors to Babylonian sources dealing with the time of Nabonidus. |
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