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Masoretic layer 'H'
'H,' or the Holiness Code, was first recognized as a short body of Kohanite legal texts beginning in Leviticus 19. Israel Knohl, however, argues in his book, The Sanctuary of Silence, for a much more extensive 'H' source placed chronologically after 'P.' This 'H' layer popularized Kohanite law for the masses after the Temple was destroyed, and functioned as an intermediary between Kohanite lists and laws and the surrounding narrative. 'H' mainly features in Exodus-Joshua, and is confined in the Book of Genesis to just a few verses in Parashat Toldot.
Sefer b'Midbar (Numbers) | Sefer Bereshit (Genesis) | Sefer Devarim (Deuteronomy) | Parashat Aḥarei Mōt | Parashat b'Midbar | Parashat b'ha-Alotekha | Parashat b'Har | Parashat b'Ḥuqotai | Parashat Bo | Parashat b'Shalaḥ | Parashat Devarim | Parashat Emor | Parashat Éqev | Parashat Ha'Azinu | Parashat Ḥuqat | Parashat Ki Tissa | Parashat Mas'ei | Parashat Matōt | Parashat Metsora | Parashat Naso | Parashat Ph'qudei | Parashat Pinḥas | Parashat Qedoshim | Parashat Qoraḥ | Parashat Sh'mini | Parashat Shemot | Parashat Shlaḥ | Parashat Tazria | Parashat Terumah | Parashat Toldōt | Parashat Tsav | Parashat T'tsavveh | Parashat Va'era | Parashat va'Etḥanan | Parashat Vayaqhel | Parashat Vayiqra | Parashat v'Zōt haBrakhah | Pesaḥ Readings | Shemini Atseret & Simḥat Torah Readings | Sefer Shemot (Exodus) | Sukkot Readings | Sefer Vayiqra (Leviticus)
אחרי מות Aḥarei Mōt | Aharon | annual Torah reading cycle | anti-predatory | atonement | authority vs. integrity | Azael | Azazel | במדבר Bamidbar | Betsalel | בחקתי b’Ḥuqotai | breaking down | census | command-compliance pattern | corporal punishment | the daughters of Tselofḥad | Decalogue | דברים Devarim | egel hazahav | אמֹר Emor | עקב Éqev | ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael | fake news | fast-forward | golden calf | Har Sinai | חקת Ḥuqat | עינוי Innui (self-affliction) | investiture | אשי ישראל ishei yisrael | כבוד kavod | Kohanim | let's review | liberation from mitsrayim | מסעי Masei | מטות Matot | Maw of the Earth | מצרע Metsora | Midbar Paran | midbar quest | Midbar Sinai | Midbar Tsyn | Midian | Miriam's well | missing years | Molekh | moving out | mythopoesis | Naming names | נזיר Nazir | Oholiav | פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua | פרשות parashot | פינחס Pinḥas | predation | קדשים Qedoshim | קרח Qoraḥ | קריעת ים סוף qriyat yam suf | reconnaissance | redaction criticism | ritual purity | rosh ḥodesh | rosh hashanah l'behemah | safe passage | sexual predation | שבת shabbat | שבת חזון Shabbat Ḥazon | שבת נחמו Shabbat Naḥamu | פרשת בהר parashat Behar | פרשת בהעלתך b'Ha'alotekha | פרשת בא Parashat Bo | פרשת בשלח parashat B'shalaḥ | פרשת האזינו parashat Haazinu | פרשת כי תשא parashat Ki Tisa | פרשת נשא parashat Naso | פרשת פיקודי parashat Piqudei | פרשת שמות parashat Shemot | פרשת שלח parashat Shlaḥ | פרשת תזריע parashat Tazria | פרשת תרומה parashat Terumah | פרשת תולדת parashat Toldot | פרשת צו parashat Tsav | פרשת תצוה parashat Ttsavveh | פרשת וארא parashat Va'era | פרשת ויקהל parashat Vayaqhel | פרשת וזאת הברכה parashat vZot haBrakhah | שמע shemaŋ | שמיני Sh'mini | שיר Shir | שירת הים Shirat haYam | shlepping | שמיטה shmitah | slavery | Song of the Sea | Sukkot Shabbat Hol haMoed | supplementary hypothesis | the Camp | the menorah | המשכן the Mishkan | המזבח the Mizbe'aḥ | the Plains of Moav | theophany | thirty-eight years later | tribes | tsaraat | ואתחנן va'Etḥanan | ויקרא Vayiqra | ימי השובבים Yemei haShovavim | Yom Kippur | יובל Yovel Jubilee | 8th century B.C.E. | 7th century B.C.E. | 6th century B.C.E. | 31st century A.M. | 33rd century A.M. | 34th century A.M. | 35th century A.M.
📜 פָּרָשַׁת פִּינְחָס | Parashat Pinḥas (Numbers 25:10-30:1), color-coded according to its narrative layers
Contributed on: 20 Jul 2019 by Tzemaḥ Yoreh | the Masoretic Text | Masoretic layer 'P' | Masoretic layer 'H' | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
The text of parashat Pinḥas, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . .
📜 פָּרָשַׁת מַסְעֵי | Parashat Mas’ei (Numbers 33:1-36:13), color-coded according to its narrative layers
Contributed on: 23 Jul 2019 by Tzemaḥ Yoreh | the Masoretic Text | Masoretic layer 'P' | Masoretic layer 'H' | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
The text of parashat Masei, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . .
