Priestly source
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The Priestly source is a widely recognized source underlying the Torah, and is stylistically and theologically distinct from other material in the book. It is considered by most scholars as the latest
Diagram of the supplementary hypothesis, a popular model of the composition of the Torah. The Priestly source is shown as P.
The ending of Exodus 40 and beginning of Leviticus 1, two Priestly texts, in a late thirteenth-century manuscript
Genesis flood narrative
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The Genesis flood narrative is a Hebrew flood myth. It tells of God's decision to destroy creation, saving only Noah and the people and animals who went with him into an ark built on God's instruction
Priestly source
…in Exodus 40, or in Exodus 29:46. P is responsible for the first of the two creation stories in Genesis (Genesis 1), for Adam's genealogy, part of the Flood story, the Table of Nations, and the genealogy of Shem (i.e., Abraham's ancestry). Most of the remainder of Genesis is from the Yahwist, but P provides the…
The Flood of Noah and Companions (c. 1911) by Léon Comerre
The Deluge (1865) by Gustave Doré
Building the Ark (watercolor c. 1896–1902 by James Tissot)
1896 illustration of the symbol of the rainbow, which God created as a sign of the covenant