An Assessment of the Alleged Pre-Exilic Date of the Priestly Material in the Pentateuch

Abstract

Yehezkel Kaufmann's attempt to establish a pre-exilic date for the composition of the P source was motivated by his rejection of nineteenth century evolutionary views of Israelite religion and Wellhausen's understanding of early judaism in particular. The same motivation is at work in those Israeli and American scholars who have followed his lead by either updating his arguments or elaborating new ones in support of the same conclusion. Some seek to align P with Early Biblical Hebrew and others the lexicographical arguments of Hurvitz in favor of the chronological priority of P to Ezekiel

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