Priestly Source

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The Priestly Source is a major strand of Pentateuchal literature that centers ritual, sacred space, genealogies, and ordered relations between God, Israel, and the world. It presents the sanctuary and its practices as the mechanism that lets divine holiness dwell among an impure human community.

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“One of those sources, one of those distinctive strands, has been identified pretty early on as the priestly source.”

Liane Feldman Episode 22

“One of the most important parts of this source, one of the things that comes through in P that doesn't necessarily come through quite so strongly in any of the other sources, D included, is the idea that the Israelite cult, the sanctuary, the sacrifices made at that sanctuary are really the center of the life of the Israelites.”

Liane Feldman Episode 22

“The flood story as we have it now is the product of two different tales of the deluge, the flood, that have been woven together in a not totally clumsy, but also not totally erudite way.”

Dan McClellan Episode 131

“This was originally an etiological explanation for the Israelite adoption of circumcision in infancy and provides an alternative explanation to that given by the Priestly source in Genesis 17.”

Dan McClellan Episode 111