(Hebrew characters) and (Hebrew characters) are in Genesis singularly few. In E contexts, (Hebrew characters) occurs 2211. 14 bis 2821 3149, where its presence seems due to the intentional action of a redactor. J has (Hebrew characters) (a) in 31-5 425 (a special case: see pp. 2, 53); (b) where the contrast between the divine and the human is to be emphasised, 3229; (c) in conversations with, or references to, heathen (real or supposed), 927 399 4132b. 38 4328. 29 4416; there are also (d) some doubtful examples which are very probably to be assigned to E, 335b. 10b. 11 4228. It is only in the last group (if even there), with the possible addition (see p. 155) of 81, that redactional alteration or scribal error need be suspected.
For the inhabitants of Canaan, J uses (Hebrew characters), 1018b. 19 126 (? R), 243. 37 5011 + (with (Hebrew characters), 137 (R?) 3430); E (Hebrew characters), 1516 4822 +.[1]
For the name Jacob, J substitutes Israel after 3522 (exc. 465b); E consistently uses Jacob (exc. 462 488. 11. 21 [5025?]).
The following are selected lists of expressions (in Genesis) highly characteristic of J and E respectively:
J: (Hebrew characters) and (Hebrew characters) in genealogies: the former, 420. 21 1021 1129 222; the latter, 421 1025 (cf. 2221 2526 3829f.).—(Hebrew characters) (in connexion with a late-born child), 212a. 7 2436 373 4420.—(Hebrew characters), 68 183 1919 3027 326 338. 10. 15 3411 394 4725. 29 504 +.—(Hebrew characters) (without (Hebrew characters)), 25 194 2415. 45 +.—(Hebrew characters) (in sexual sense), 41. 17. 25 195. 8 2416 3826 (also in P).—(Hebrew characters) (= 'beget'), 418 108. 13. 15. 26 2223 253.—(Hebrew characters), 2423. 42. 49 2816 394. 5. 8 422 434. 7 4419. 20. 26 476b + (421 E?).—Derivatives of [root] (Hebrew characters), 316. 16. 17 529 66 455a.—(Hebrew characters), 223 1832 2934. 35 3020b 4630 +.—(Hebrew characters), (Hebrew characters) (for the younger of two brothers or sisters), 1931. 34. 35. 38 2523 2926 4333 4814.—(Hebrew characters), 426 128 134 2133 2625 +.—(Hebrew characters), 182 [191] 2417 2913 334.—(Hebrew characters), 1216 161. 5. 6. 8 2435 307. 10. 12. 43 326. 23 331. 2. 6. (2014 3018 R: also common in P); see on (Hebrew characters) below.—(Hebrew characters), 1816 1928 268 +.—(Hebrew characters) with following gen., 184 2417. 43 432. 11 4425.—Particles: (Hebrew characters), 317 821 1213. 16 18{26 29. 31. 32} 2130 2624 274. 10. 19. 31 4634.—(Hebrew characters), 185 198 3310 3826 +.—(Hebrew characters), 311 415 1921 389 + (in E and P once each).—(Hebrew characters), in J about 40 times, in E about 6 times (in Gen.).
E: (Hebrew characters), 2017 2110. 12. 13 303 3133 + (see (Hebrew characters) above).—(Hebrew characters) and (Hebrew characters) ('elder' and 'younger'), 2916. 18 4213. 15. 20. 32. 34 (cf. 4151f.).—(Hebrew characters), 4511 4712 5021.—(Hebrew characters), 2915 317. 41.—A very characteristic idiom of E is the vocative (sometimes doubled: 2211 462, Ex. 34, [1 Sa. 34 G] +) with the answer (Hebrew characters): 221. 7. 11 271b. 18 3111 3713 462 +.—E is further distinguished by a number of rare or archaic words or phrases: (Hebrew characters), 2012 + Jos. 720; (Hebrew characters), 4816 +; (Hebrew characters), 3020; (Hebrew characters), 2114. 15. 19 +; (Hebrew characters), 2116 +; (Hebrew characters) ('honest'), 4211. 19. 31. 33. 34; (Hebrew characters), 317. 41 +; (Hebrew characters), 2123 (cf. Is. 1422, Jb. 1819 +); (Hebrew characters), 229 +; (Hebrew characters), 4811; (Hebrew characters), 408ff. 418ff. +; (Hebrew characters), 405ff. 4111 +; (Hebrew characters), 4123; (Hebrew characters), 3319 + Jos. 2432 [Jb. 4211] +; by a partiality for rare infinitive forms (3128 463 5020 4811 +), and the occasional use of long forms of the nominal suff. (2129 [316] 4121 4236).
The religious and theological conceptions of the two
documents are in the main identical, though a certain difference
of standpoint appears in one or two features. Both
- ↑ The cross (+) means that the usage is continued in the other books of the Hex.