Priestly

priestly English Etymology 1 Variant of en Priestley. Proper noun s en habitational Old English. Etymology 2 en de priesterlich and de Priesterschrift Priestly source priest document, so called because of the reconstructed source’s emphasis on cultic issues. See en priestly. Adjective -,more en history Pertaining to the Priestly source (“P”), one of the sources of the Torah or Pentateuch according to the documentary hypothesis. en Yahwistic Elohistic Deuteronomistic en 1971 w:Norman Habel Literary Criticism of the Old Testament 0800601769 79 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F4T9i-nZcs8C&pg=PA79 Thus we continue to meet the new Priestly expression, “you (they) shall know that I am Yahweh” en 2004 Steven L. McKenzie Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries: I & II Chronicles 068700750X 27 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s3weTW7ylToC&pg=PA27 Then, Welch (1939) went the opposite way, asserting that the original layer, written before the end of the exile showed Deuteronomy’s influence and that more Priestly texts were secondary. en 2005 2000 Reinhard Gregor Kratz Reinhard G. Kratz John Bowden (theologian) John Bowden The Composition of the Narrative Books of the Old Testament 0567089207 110 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g0WnSW4Pc8oC&pg=PA110 Noth made the necessary objections to that view and demonstrated that these are additions in the Priestly style which presuppose the bringing together of P and the non-Priestly text in Genesis–Numbers and the combination of Genesis–Joshua. en Bible