In "The Century Bible" (T. C. and E. C. Jack,
2s. 6d. net) we have Leviticus and Numbers, by A. R. S. Kennedy, D.D. Professor Kennedy's view of the composition of the Pentateuch is briefly this. The constituents are " JE," in which " J," a Southern document (900-850 B.C.), and "E," a Northern (800-750 B.C.), have been combined; "D," the "Book of the Law" found in the Temple (622 B.C.) ; "P," the Priestly Code (500 B.C.), this last being of mixed origin ; and " H," the Holiness Code, "a composite code compiled from more than one earlier collection of priestly decisions." Leviticus i.-xvi. is "P"; xvii.-xxii. is " H" ; in the remaining chapters both sources are mixed together. Much the same may be said about Numbers, except that in xx.-xxiv. " jE " appears in the history of Balsam, though not without admixture.
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