I think that it is incorrect to suggest that the Persian administration authorized the composition of the P corpus or the Pentateuch. They were primarily concerned with the establishment and maintenance of order in religious and civil matters, and if the documents that the reforming priests brought to Jerusalem contained the law, that was all that mattered. I also think it unlikely that the whole of P was written for this single occasion. Yet the P narrative (Pg) is a single unified composition written
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