in Egypt, the revelation at Mt. Sinai, and Israel’s sojourn in the wilderness. These early narratives of J appear to be composed by an author or authors living in the southern kingdom of Judah and written sometime after the 922 BCE split of the nation into the north and the south but prior to the destruction of the northern kingdom in 721 BCE. The second stream is called “E” because “Elohim” is consistently used for the name of God. The author appears to have lived in the northern kingdom about the
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