the PC. We cannot doubt that the spirit of the Priestly writers was hostile to the older form of the tradition, or that if the tendencies represented by the Code had prevailed the stories which are to us the most precious parts of the Book of Genesis would have found no place in the Bible of Judaism. It is not the only case where the spiritual instinct of the Church has judged more wisely than the theology of the schools. We know that deeper influences than the legalism and institutionalism of P’s