One of the four sources of the Torah in the documentary hypothesis
Diagram of the supplementary hypothesis, a popular model of the composition of the Torah. The Priestly source is shown as P.
The Priestly source (or simply P) is perhaps the most widely recognized of the sources underlying the Torah, both stylistically and theologically distinct from other material in it.[1] It is considered by most scholars as the latest of all sources, and “meant to be a kind of redactional layer to hold the entirety of the Pentateuch together,”[2] It includes a set of claims that are contradicted by non-Priestly passages and therefore uniquely characteristic: no sacrifice before the institution is ordained by Yahweh (God) at Sinai, the exalted status of Aaron and the priesthood, and the use of the divine title El Shaddai before God reveals his name to Moses, to name a few.[3]
In general, the Priestly work is concerned with priestly matters – ritual law, the origins of shrines and rituals, and genealogies – all expressed in a formal, repetitive style.[4] It stresses the rules and rituals of worship, and the crucial role of priests,[5] expanding considerably on the role given to Aaron (all Levites are priests, but according to P only the descendants of Aaron were to be allowed to officiate in the inner sanctuary).[6]
^Ska 2006, p. 146.
^Feldman 2023, p. 5: "A number of scholars understand the priestly stratum to be the latest source, written after all the others and meant to be a kind of redactional layer to hold the entirety of the Pentateuch together".
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is one of four source documents underlying the Torah, together with the Jahwist (or Yahwist), the Deuteronomist and the Priestlysource. The Elohist is...
genealogy of Cain is attributed to the Jahwist source, while the genealogy of Seth is attributed to the Priestlysource. The J list and P list contain seven pairs...
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certain passages of the Bible, which textual scholars ascribe to the PriestlySource, assert that it is only the descendants of Aaron known as Aaronim who...
hypothesis accepts "three sources or literary strata within the Pentateuch," which have come to be known as the Yahwist (J), the Priestly Writer (P), and the...
as late as the 3rd century BCE. It draws on two sources, called the Priestlysource and the non-Priestly or Yahwist, and although many of its details are...
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independent sources, which were later compiled together by a redactor: J, the Jahwist source, E, the Elohist source, P, the Priestlysource, and D, the...
came from four sources: the Yahwist (abbreviated as J), the Elohist (E), the Deuteronomist (D) and the Priestlysource (P). Each source was held to tell...
addition to the Priestlysource. This source is often abbreviated as "H". A date generally accepted by the proponents of the four-source hypothesis is sometime...
these censuses during the Exodus, some source-critical scholars place their authorship in the period of PriestlySource, which Richard Elliot Freedman dates...
The Priestly Blessing or priestly benediction (Hebrew: ברכת כהנים; translit. birkat kohanim), also known in rabbinic literature as raising of the hands...
different uses when the Book of Genesis was compiled from its Jahwist and Priestlysources. Following the Genesis flood narrative, a large multi-branched genealogy...
the author of the passage, which textual scholars attribute to the priestlysource, was not actually entirely aware of what they were either. Nevertheless...
present in the PriestlySource except for the Holiness Code. Under the documentary hypothesis, while some scholars believe that the Priestly Code was created...
from the JE source, and the version in the Book of Numbers being from the PriestlySource; the latter account, like the PriestlySource in general, is...
Jahwist source) and was later expanded by other authors (the Priestlysource) into a work very like Genesis as known today. The two sources can be identified...
originating from a religiopolitical group similar to that behind the Priestlysource, and at a similar date. According to some biblical scholars, the Torah's...
on two distinct "sources", the Priestlysource and what is sometimes called the Yahwist source and sometimes simply the "non-Priestly"; for the purpose...
The priestly breastplate or breastpiece of judgment (Hebrew: חֹשֶׁן ḥōšen) was a sacred breastplate worn by the High Priest of the Israelites, according...
field of source criticism believe that the stories of Ishmael belong to the three strata of J, or Yahwist source, the P, or Priestlysource, and the E...
there is no agreement over the non-Priestlysource(s). Genesis is a post-exilic work combining "Priestly" and "non-Priestly" material. Exodus is an anthology...
BCE), but places the Priestlysource at the court of Hezekiah; his sequence of sources therefore runs Jahwist–Elohist–Priestly–Deuteronomist [JEPD] (while...
in the Persian period following the exile,: 310 and the Priestlysource, one of its main sources, is primarily a product of the post-exilic period when...
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