The History of the Pentateuch
Priestly Torah (P)
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South Narrative (J)
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North Narrative (E)
Deuteronomic Torah (D)
c. 950 BCE
c. 721 BCE Fall of Northern Kingdom
JE c. 700 BCE
597-538 BCE Babylonian Exile
587 BCE Fall of Jerusalem
c. 550 BCE
JED
JED+P (c.400 BCE)
Egyptian
Palestinian
Babylonian
Samaritan
Jerusalem
Maccabean
LXX (165BCE)
Qumran
Proto-Masoretic
Targums
Samaritan Pentateuch
Consonantal Text--Jamnia--100 CE
II AD Christian
Aquila, Theodotion
Old Latin
Syriac
Vulgate 405 CE
Palestinian
Babylonian
Karaites
Medieval Masoretic
Ben Asher
Ben Naphalti
Ben Hayyim 1524 CE
Samaritan
Written Tradition
Oral Tradition
Masoretic
Peshitta
Vulgate
Septuagint
Credits: My thanks to Dennis A. Somerville, for creating the image map,
and to Prof. Jonathan Z. Smith, for the class handout 20+ years ago that
inspired this web page.
Date last modified:
April
20,
2002.
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