Talk:Priestly source

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[edit] Ezekiel the time traveller

I have removed the following passage from the page:

However, Ezekiel, and other prophets who quote from P, date from the time of king Hezekiah, whose interests P matches, and afterwards, and thus require P to have been written before the end of Hezekiah's reign in 687BC.

Since Ezekiel lived during the exile, he could not have "dated from the time of king Hezekiah". Isaiah was a contemporary of Hezekiah, but he was not listed as having quoted from P.

Feel free to correct this. User:Ben Standeven 128.252.41.94 05:42, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I believe there is a silver vace in the Israel museaum dated 800 bc that is inscribed with the Aaronic benediction. Wouldn't that throw a wrench in this theory? 212.179.254.53 (talk) 01:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Accretion of Material"

Can somebody cite a source for this? I personally think it makes sense- the Midianite War account seems to be very awkwardly placed, and the Priestly Code has some elements that have been used to argue for a Hezekian date (coincidence of P language with Hezekiah's regnal account, pre-exilic form of Hebrew; Friedman, 1987) and others that would seem to imply a post-exilic date (reference to household objects not known until that period; Dever, 2001); Halpern, 2001 has argued for a date of P contemporary with Jeremiah, since Jeremiah's apparent references to it ("It was made for a lie, the lying pen scribes!") have the tone of an attack on a recent work rather than one from a century earlier.--Rob117 20:49, 4 July 2006 (UTC)