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Yawhist, good story, God seen in human terms |
950-850, Judah, Yahweh, Lord or God, Sinai, Canaanites, Israel seen as the fulfillment of the promise to the patriarchs |
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Elohist |
~9th, N. Kingdom or Israel, Eloheim, God, god, gods, Horeb, Ammorites, Exact moral std. There is distance between God and man, messengers=angels |
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Deuteronomists, exuberant, rhetorical, prophetic, exhortative |
650 and later, law and theology of Josiah's reform (625) Israel--God's chosen people, but must be faithful to God |
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Priestly abstract, repetitive, geneology |
550 and later, Elohim, God, none, none, Priesthood and ceremonials, legalistic, liturgical (worship) |