... creation story in Genesis 2 and 3 repeatedly used "Yahweh elohim", led 18th century researchers to conclude that Moses must have used two or more different written sources when he composed these early chapters of the books of the Pentateuch. From this, source criticism was born and in the next two centuries it focussed its attention on the problems of the Pentateuch, finally reaching an agreement that there were four major written sources behind our present Pentateuch. The first two were Yahwist (J) source and Elohist (E) source, based on the way the two earlier documents referred to God's name. The Yahwist source forms the heart of the Pentateuch structure as various traditions are built around the basic plot first found in J. Since form criticism has pointed out that the many different settings and types of traditional units that existed in ancient Israel, we can be certain that ...

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