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John Van Seters (born May 2, 1935 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian scholar of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Ancient Near East. Currently University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, he was formerly James A. Gray Professor of Biblical Literature at UNC. He took his Ph.D. at Yale University in Near Eastern Studies (1965) and a Th.D. h.c. from the University of Lausanne (1999). His honours and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH fellowship, an ACLS Fellowship, and research fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and National Research Foundation of South Africa. His many publications include The Hyksos: A New Investigation (1966); Abraham in History and Tradition (1975); In Search of History (1983, for which he won the James H. Breasted Prize and the American Academy of Religion book award); The Edited Bible (2006); and The Biblical Saga of King David (2009).[1]

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John Van Seters

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John Van Seters (born May 2, 1935 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian scholar of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Ancient Near East. Currently...

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Abraham in History and Tradition

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This article presents information about the John Van Seters book; for general information about the topic, see Abraham: Historicity and origins and The...

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Composition of the Torah

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1093/jts/flm136. Van Seters, John (2013). The Yahwist: A Historian of Israelite Origins. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-1-575-06286-0. Van Seters, John (2015)...

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Supplementary hypothesis

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Publishing Co. p. 49. Van Seters, John, (1999). The Pentateuch: A Social-Science Commentary, Sheffield Academic Press, p. 78. Van Seters, John, (1999). The Pentateuch:...

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Land of Goshen

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Qedarites who occupied the eastern Delta from the 7th century BCE, but John Van Seters thinks this unlikely. Pithom Raamses On In 1885, Édouard Naville identified...

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Documentary hypothesis

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This was triggered in large part by the influential publications of John Van Seters, Hans Heinrich Schmid, and Rolf Rendtorff in the mid-1970s, who argued...

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Patriarchal age

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Narratives by Thomas L. Thompson and Abraham in History and Tradition by John van Seters. Thompson, a literary scholar, argued on the lack of compelling evidence...

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Law of Moses

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books is considered misleading by 21st-century Christian bible scholar John Van Seters, because the Pentateuch "consists of about one half law and the other...

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Book of Deuteronomy

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Decalogue. (The following "literary" outline of Deuteronomy is from John Van Seters; it can be contrasted with Alexander Rofé's "covenantal" analysis in...

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Amraphel

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"Amar", which was also used by Sumerian King, Amar-Sin, and "a-p-l". John Van Seters, in Abraham in History and Tradition, rejected the historical existence...

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Battle of Refidim

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and then attacked an entire tribe of Israelites.[citation needed] John Van Seters argues that, according to traditional interpretation, a show of hands...

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Book of Genesis

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Longman 2005, p. 49. Van Seters 1998, p. 14. Van Seters 2004, pp. 30–86. Gmirkin 2006, pp. 240–241. Ska 2006, pp. 169, 217–218. Van Seters 2004, pp. 113–114...

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Covenant Code

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B.M. Levinson (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994), 15–36 John Van Seters (24 September 2015). The Pentateuch: A Social-Science Commentary. Bloomsbury...

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Elohist

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material. The "supplementary" approach is exemplified in the work of John Van Seters, who places the composition of J (which he, unlike the "fragmentists"...

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Primeval history

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other hand the Yahwist source has been dated by some scholars, notably John Van Seters, to the exilic pre-Persian period (the 6th century BCE) precisely because...

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Mitch Prinstein

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Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology. He is a Fellow of both the American...

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Pithom

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later accepted by William F. Albright, and Kenneth Kitchen. Although John van Seters and Neil Asher Silberman argue that Tell El Retaba was unoccupied during...

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Adam and Eve

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other hand the Yahwist source has been dated by some scholars, notably John Van Seters, to the exilic pre-Persian period (the 6th century BCE) precisely because...

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Form criticism

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Following the publication of Abraham in History and Tradition by John van Seters, Der sogenannte Jahwist ("The So-Called Yahwist") by Hans Heinrich...

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Priestly source

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repetitions, different narrative styles, and different names for God. John Van Seters notes that within the first four books, the Tetrateuch - that is, omitting...

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Tribe of Reuben

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Edition. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 31–34. ISBN 978-0-567-67044-1. John Van Seters (3 October 2014). Changing Perspectives 1: Studies in the History,...

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Abraham

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Thompson's The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), and John Van Seters' Abraham in History and Tradition (1975). Thompson, a literary scholar...

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Hans Heinrich Schmid

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1976) appeared at about the same time as two other important works, John Van Seters' Abraham in History and Tradition (1975), and Rolf Rendtorff's "Das...

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John William Wevers

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Hilhorst 1991, pp. 153. Van Seters 2010, pp. 633. "The John William Wevers Prize in Septuagint Studies". 2020-05-15. "John William Wevers Institute for...

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Historicity of the Bible

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Narratives by Thomas L. Thompson and Abraham in History and Tradition by John Van Seters. Thompson, a literary scholar, argued on the lack of compelling evidence...

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Deuteronomist

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ISBN 9781575060033. Van Seters, John (2015) [1999]. The Pentateuch: A Social-Science Commentary. Bloomsbury T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-65880-7. Van Seters, John (1998)...

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Torah

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an introduction to critical issues. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664256524. Van Seters, John (2004). The Pentateuch: a social-science commentary...

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