The Consuming Fire: The Complete Priestly Source, from Creation to the Promised Land. UC Press, 2023.An ambitious and interesting attempt to reconstruct and translate the full surviving text of the Pentateuchal Priestly source (P).... Lest this project begin to sound like a gathering of esoteric academic arguments (which in a way it is), I should say that I had a strong secondary agenda in creating this translation. I wanted to make this text accessible to a broad audience. Put simply: I wanted the language and the ideas to work for an undergraduate classroom or make sense to a non-academic audience. After all, to my mind P is first and foremost a story. It should be able to be read as such. ...
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