Liane Feldman, The Consuming Fire: The Complete Priestly Source, from Creation to the Promised Land (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023).I noted an essay by the author on the book here. And for posts on her earlier book, The Story of Sacrifice, mentioned in this review, see here and links... This, in the end, is part of what makes Feldman’s treatment so successful. In other words, one of the greatest benefits of separating P out is that it forces you to read it on its own, something that is virtually impossible if you’re looking at the whole canonical text. You can know in theory what P does and does not contain, but it’s different when you read it seamlessly in one go. Then you really see that in P there’s no law given at Sinai, there’s no Miriam, and the Israelites do not begin their conquest while they are in the wilderness. ...
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