The focus of Part 2 will center on the announcement of YHWH to Abram in Gn 12.1-4.  The Urgeschichte (Gn 3-11) forms the “great intoductory edifice” (Wolff).  “That the Yahwist, with his compiling, ordering, selecting, and enlarging of the tradition, means to proclaim a message first becomes undoubtedly clear in...