priestly

adj

1. Of or relating to priests.
2. Having the appearance of or resembling a priest.
3. (not-comparable, usually)Pertaining to the Priestly source (“P”), one of the sources of the Torah or Pentateuch according to the documentary hypothesis.

   “Thus we continue to meet the new Priestly expression, “you (they) shall know that I am Yahweh” […]”

   “Then, Welch (1939) went the opposite way, asserting that the original layer, written before the end of the exile showed Deuteronomy’s influence and that more Priestly texts were secondary.”

   “Noth made the necessary objections to that view and demonstrated that these are additions in the Priestly style which presuppose the bringing together of P and the non-Priestly text in Genesis–Numbers and the combination of Genesis–Joshua.”

name

1. A habitational surname from Old English.