Personalities · 15 · Jeremiah and Baruch

John Van Seters

This biblical scholar distinguished royal self-justifying inscriptions from 'history proper,' in which a nation renders account to itself.

Useful insight, problematic assumption.

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He dates the Yahwist and Deuteronomist to the post-exilic period and downplays both earlier sources and later edits.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 243–244

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