By meticulously tracing each of these separate narrative threads, biblical scholars have managed to identify at least four different written sources that make up the bulk of the early books in the Bible. These are named the Yahwist, or J, source (j is pronounced as y in German), which dates to the tenth or ninth century B.C.E. and runs through large parts of Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers; the Elohist, or E, source, which dates to the eighth or seventh century B.C.E. and is mostly confined to Genesis and parts of Exodus; the Priestly, or P, source, which was written either during or immediately
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