s a woman, or at least came from outside the
received traditions and structures of the priesthood. Although there is no
way to establish, officially, the gender of this author, it is possible to
establish that the narrative threads authored by "J" have a very different
tone than the threads established by "E." For instance, while in "E," a
depersonalized force of God creates the heavens, and all of the individual
beings that inhabit the earth, it is from "J" that we receive the tale of
Adam and Eve and the tempting serpent. (The Documentary Hypothesis, Website
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