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Making of the Pentateuch, first published in 1987, has become one of the most important books on Pentateuchal origins published in a generation. In this volume, Whybray surveys the field of Pentateuch origins first developed by Julius Wellhausen in the late nineteenth century and Hermann Gunkel in the early twentieth century. Making of the Pentateuch is divided into three sections. Part one...

the time of Solomon, supports his point about the Yahwist; but the early date of the Succession Narrative has been questioned recently, and in any case it is not a real parallel to J, since it chronicles only a particular series of events within the span of a single king’s reign. It must then be concluded that the concept of the author of J as both a brilliant historian of the early first millennium BC and also as the earliest of all historians, the inventor of a literary genre unknown even to the
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