#with the real final redaction into either the masoretic or septuagint being in the persian or hellenistic period

[femme-objet]

another example of how the bible would be radically different under northern authorship is that the sequence of events as presented in the pentateuch came later and to serve judahite ideology. the story of abraham comes from the south, whereas the north had two competing founding myths: the exodus and the story of jacob. it is only much later that the events are arranged in such a way that abraham is the grandfather of jacob who is the father of joseph who goes to egypt and then ‘the jews’ (a much later invention) came from egypt to canaan. similarly with the book of judges, theorized to be based on an earlier, northern, book of saviors, which itself would have been a collection of local stories with the ideological goal of delineating who is a ‘real’ israelite.