Looking for a book on JEDP/Pentateuch redaction theories...

[toejam]

I only know the very basics of the varying JEDP/Pentateuch redaction theories, but I'm keen to explore them a little further. Anyone know a good book? I'm thinking something like Mark Goodacre's "The Synoptic Problem" - i.e. something that's up-to-date with modern scholarship, shortish (~300pages), written for a lay audience (but not completely dumbed down), something that lays out several major hypotheses and criticisms without necessarily trying to persuade of any one in particular. Any ideas?

[outhouse]

Nothing is solved here and more is unknown, then known. I can supply a foundation of text still used today even though it is dated it is still revered.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/log/log02.htm

And to help place it into context. Karen Armstrongs work helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21vPrlX6Yx4

[DCHindley]

I only know the very basics of the varying JEDP/Pentateuch redaction theories, but I'm keen to explore them a little further. Anyone know a good book? I'm thinking something like Mark Goodacre's "The Synoptic Problem" - i.e. something that's up-to-date with modern scholarship, shortish (~300pages), written for a lay audience (but not completely dumbed down), something that lays out several major hypotheses and criticisms without necessarily trying to persuade of any one in particular. Any ideas?

The last "informative" thread on this subject was here:
http://www.earlywritings.com/forum/sear ... words=JEDP

The older book I had suggested (by J Estlin Carpenter) might serve as a overview of the early critical view and provides lots of examples of apparent seams and justifications for the proposal of hypothetical sources. There have been revisions as folks try to save their prized preconceptions or new ideas get applied to the same pot of data, but some of the later books appear to be conservative attempts to reverse the trend by applying reader-response theory, which just accepts the text as we have it as 'all we need." We've come full circle from medieval times. Great!

DCH