The contributors to this volume aim to situate the Priestly writings more precisely in time and place. They give special attention to choosing relevant criteria --such as geographic indicators and references to material culture within the texts themselves.

Although there is an enduring, general consensus regarding the identification of the Priestly Writings (P), there are nonetheless several open questions related to this important literary stratum in the Pentateuch. One of these crucial and debated questions is the dating and location of the Priestly texts. The contributors of this collected volume seek to better situate the Priestly Writings both temporally and geographically. In doing so they pay attention to the choice of pertinent criteria for this task and recall those that have been neglected in the recent past, such as geographical indications and references to material culture provided by the Priestly texts.

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Born 1963; 2005 PhD, University of Bern; 2019 habilitation, University of Zurich; 2024-25 Maître de conférences at the University of Strasbourg; Lecturer for Hebrew and Aramaic at the University of Geneva. Born 1983; 2018-21 research assistant at Ruhr-Universität Bochum; 2021-22 PhD and research assistant at the Universität Zürich; research assistant at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.

Inhalt
Jürg Hutzli/Jordan Davis: The Historical Location of P: An Introduction - Michaela Bauks: Literary Extensions in the P Genealogies of the Primeval History and Their Indications for a Relative Dating of P -Lionel Marti: From Ur to Harran: History of Origins or Late Rewriting? - Jürg Hutzli: The Inscriptions of Mount Gerizim and P - Anna Elise Zernecke: ". . . Albeit My Name is YHWH!" Exodus 6:2-8 and the System of Divine Designations in P - Konrad Schmid: Israel's Exodus from Egypt According to P: The Significance of Baal Zephon in Exodus 14 - Eliezer D. Oren: Mount Kasios (Baal Zephon?): The Archaeological Perspective - Axel Bühler: The Demotic Literature and the Priestly Exodus: The Legend of Sesostris, the Inaros Cycle, and the Battles of Magicians Compared to the Priestly Exodus - Christophe Nihan: The Priestly Sanctuary in Exodus 25-31 and 35-40: Material Culture and Historical Contextualization - Wolfgang Oswald: The Collective Practice of the Sabbath as Priestly Innovation - Jaeyoung Jeon: The Israelite Wilderness Camp and the Persian Movable Court of the Great Kings - Jordan Davis: A Priestly Source in Numbers?: Transjordan and the Priestly Ideology in Numbers 32