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