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The 'Yahwist', or "J Source", is the name given to one of the anonymous sources now known to have contributed to writing the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers). He is believed to have lived during the ninth century BCE, and represented the early traditions of the southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah and always used the name Yahweh (YHWH) for an anthropomorphic God with human characteristics, very unlike the depiction of God presented by his near-contemporary, the Elohist.
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Did God walk on earth?
A:If we accept the Bible as a reliable record of events, yes - God did walk on earth, and was seen in human form.One example, from the anonymous source now known as the Yahwist, is in Genesis 3:8: "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." The Yahwist represented early traditions from the kingdom of Judah, and presented God as anthropomorphic, or human-like.
Who was Caleb during the Exodus?
AnswerThe story of the Exodus is a conflation of accounts originally written by the anonymous source now known as the Yahwist and another source now known as the Priestly Source. The Yahwist represented the traditions of the southern kingdom of Judah, and as far as he was concerned, the land promised to the Israelites comprised the south alone - he was not concerned with the kingdom to his north. His hero, Caleb, was to succeed Moses and conquer the Promised Land. The Priestly Source, writing long after the destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians, wanted the northern kingdom as part of the Hebrew lands promised to the Jews and therefore it had to be included in the story. He introduced another hero, Joshua, representing Ephraim in the north but apparently unknown to the Yahwist. An example of the two different approaches is in the Book of Numbers, where Moses sent out spies to the land of Canaan. The Yahwist account states that Caleb alone tried to encourage the Israelites to proceed with the conquest (Numbers 13:30-31), but the conflated account by the Priestly Source says that Joshua and Caleb both tried to encourage the Israelites to proceed with the conquest, and were opposed by the other spies (Numbers 14:6-9).The Book of Joshua, in its entirety, tells of the conquest by the Israelites, led by Joshua alone, of the Promised Land. But then, the Book of Judges, chapter 1 tells us that Calebconquered exactly the same cities as Joshua did.Someone whose loyalties lay with the Priestly view could read Exodus and Numbers, then read Joshua, to learn of the very beginnings of the Israelite nation. The first chapter of Judges could be skimmed over without worrying much about the discrepancies, just as it is today.Meanwhile, someone whose loyalties lay with the Yahwist view could read Exodus and Numbers, then read Judges chapter 1, discarding Joshua, to learn of the very beginnings of the Israelite nation. This was a remarkable achievement that bound divergent groups of believers together in a common belief, while opening up the prospect of the Jews one day claiming Samaria (the former Israel) as their own, long-lost territory.
What is the characteristics of elohist tradition?
uses the name of "elohim" or "el shaddai" for God differs in vocabulary from the yahwist: hored for sinai; amorites for canaanites; jethro for hobab/reuel pictures god as transcedent, more remote and invisible
How does the Yahwist or Priestly theory compare to the theory of creation?
There are two biblical creation stories (Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Genesis 2:4b-2:20) that are quite distinct and even contradictory, and each should be read on its own terms, rather than assuming a single creation account. The idea that there is only one biblical creation theory arises because pious readers, believing that the text cannot contain contradictions, ignore the major disjunctions between the two creation stories and tend to treat the second story as the fuller, more detailed account of the creation of man that the first story simply reported.The Priestly source is credited with writing the first biblical creation account, and the Yahwist is credited with writing the second biblical creation account. Thus the Priestly source and the Yahwist were responsible for the biblical concept of creation, although of course each of them was passing on older traditions which they had learnt.Essentially the modern documentary hypothesis is not so much to be compared to the biblical concept of creation, but an explanation for its origin.For more information, please visit:http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creationhttp://christianity.answers.com/bible/the-pentateuch-explained
Who was the intended audience for the book of Ruth?
A:If the Pentateuch was written by Moses, as is traditionally assumed, his intended audience could have been the Israelites he led through the wilderness for forty years, or as a record for their descendants. However, there is ample evidence in the Pentateuch that it was not written by Moses, but by different sources over a period of centuries. This means that the intended audience for the final, completed books would have been different to the intended audiences of the various contributions that were brought together to form the books of the Pentateuch.The Book of Genesis consists of contributions from: the Elohist, writing in the northern kingdom of Israel prior to 722 BCE; the somewhat earlier contributions of the Yahwist, writing in Judah; the contributions of the Priestly Source during the Babylonian Exile; the work of the Redactor who finalised the books sometime after the Return from Exile. The Deuteronomist, who wrote in late monarchical Judah, was the principal author of the Book of Deuteronomy. The Priestly Source wrote Leviticus and much of Numbers.The intended audience of the Elohist was the Israelites of the northern kingdom.The intended audience of the Yahwist was the Judahites of the southern kingdom in the early part of the monarchy.A first redactor combined the work of the Elohist and the Yahwist to create a 'JE' tradition for the people in Judah. No doubt this was influenced by the influx of Israelites fleeing south from the Assyrian army, and the need to incorporate at least some Israelite traditions into the local Yahwist traditions and thereby secure the loyalty of the arriving Israelites.The intended audience of the Deuteronomist, author of the Book of Deuteronomy, was the people of Judah during the final period of the monarchy. His focus was on the political and theological needs of the monarchy.The intended audience of the Priestly Source was the Jews, both in Exile and on their return. There was no longer a monarchy and the priestly class had created a theocracy, which needed to justify allegience to the priestly class and laws that enhanced their position in society.The Redactor finalised the works of his predecessors and created the Pentateuch, or Torah, for all time. He intended the Pentateuch as a statement of faith and history for the Jewish nation.
Did the Yahwist write Exodus?
The Yahwist wrote the first half of Exodus, as well as around half the material in Genesis and a small amount of material in Numbers. The Yahwist seems to have known nothing of the man Joshua.
What is yahwist?
As a general proper noun, a Yahwist is a person who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word.The Yahwist is another name for the Jehovist, the credited writer of the Pentateuch in the Old Testament.
What is a Yahwist?
As a general proper noun, a Yahwist is a person who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word.The Yahwist is another name for the Jehovist, the credited writer of the Pentateuch in the Old Testament.
How many years before Christ were the Yahwist stories written?
The source now known as the Yahwist, or 'J' Source, was one of the four principal contributors to the authorship of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. The Yahwist is generally believed to have lived during the ninth century BCE, although a minority view places this source some centuries later. The Yahwist was a recorder of existing traditions, not someone believed to have created new fiction. Most of the Yahwist material in the Bible is clearly from a much earlier period, coming down to the Yahwist orally, or some material may already have been written down.
What is the Yahwist source in Genesis?
A:The Book of Genesis, although traditionally thought to have been written by Moses, is now attributed to three main sources, the Yahwist (or 'J' source), the Elohist ('E' source) and the Priestly Source ('P' source). The Yahwist (J) source's main interests were the southern kingdom, Judah, and the Aaronid priesthood. The Yahwist has been estimated as being from about 950 BCE and uses an earlier form of the Hebrew language than P, with a vivid and colourful style.The Yahwist source always used 'YHWH' as the name for an anthropomorphic God with human characteristics. The Yahwist's view of God was distinctive, in that he made promises and covenants with his chosen people.
What are the 4 traditions present in the old testament?
Yahwist, Elohist, Duetercanomic, and Priestly
Four traditions present in the Pentateuch?
1) The four traditions are Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomic and Priestly.
In which account of the flood is Noah never instructed to build the ark?
Noah is never instructed to build an ark in the Yahwist account.
What sources are in each book of the Pentateuch?
The principal sources for Genesis were the Yahwist, the Elohist and the Priestly Source.The principal sources for Exodus were the Yahwist, the Elohist and the Priestly Source.The principal source for Leviticus was the Priestly Source.The principal source for Numbers was the Priestly Source, with some material by the Yahwist.The principal sources for Deuteronomy was the Deuteronomist, who was also responsible for the Deuteronomic History.The JE Redactor combined early material by the Yahwist and the Elohist and may have made minor changes to content. The final Redactor redacted the books into much the form we know today and made minor changes to content.
Where was Genesis chapter 22 written?
Genesis chapter 22 is considered to be a compilation of material by the Elohist Source (verses 1-10) and the Yahwist Source. The Elohist is believed to have written in the northern kingdom of Israel duiring the eighth century BCE, while the Yahwist is believed to have written in the southern kingdom of Judah duiring the ninth century BCE. A redactor subsequently combined the work of the two sources When the two traditions overlapped, as they often did, the JE redactor generally dropped the Elohist material in favour of the Yahwist material, presumably because the redactor was a resident of Judah. The result of this is that the first part of Genesis chapter 22 was probably written in Israel, while the remainder was written in Judah. Elohist material that more or less parallels the Yahwist story, in the second part of the chapter, would also have been written in Israel but is now lost.
What similarities are shared by the account of creation and the flood narratives?
AnswerThe biblical creation account and the biblical Flood story were both written by the same two authors: the Yahwist ('J' source) and the Priestly author ('P' source). However, in the creation account the Priestly story (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) is kept quite separate from the earlier Yahwist story (Genesis 2:4b-2:25), but in the Flood story, they are interwoven, thus making it less apparent that there are really two stories there.
Where is the story of the creation of Adam from?
Scholars say that the book of Genesis had three main authors, one of whom was the Yahwist ("J Source"), whose contributions include the story of Adam. The Yahwist represented the traditions of the southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah and wrote of an anthropormorphic God with human characteristics, who made covenants with his people. This can be seen in the passages where God walked in the garden in the cool of the day, and when he approached Adam, and later Cain, and talked to them face to face.S. H. Hooke (Middle Eastern Mythology) believes that the story of Adam could be based, in part, on the Mesopotamian myth of Aparta.
