The Book of Genesis Dual Authorship of The Creation Narrative

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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