In this popular introduction to the Priestly strand of the Tetrateuch, the literary and conceptual unity of the work is demonstrated, and the sociohistorical implications of its composition by a priestly class are drawn.

"This study of the Priestly tradition is the third book in a series that explores in depth the major source of the Pentateuch. In a time when attention to the final form of the text preoccupies many scholars, it is good to have freshly available such introductions to the traditional sources. As with its predecessors, this book is marked throughout by clarity and balance.