Was Seth originally in the Jahwist source or was he added by a redactor?
Hello everyone. Recently, while I was reading the Jahwist source reconstruction on Wikiversity, I was struck by how weird Seth's mention is in that source (and by that I mean Genesis 4:25 - 26, not the passages associated to him from the P source, ie. the ones in chapter 5).
After tracing Cain’s entire lineage down to Lamech (line which is very similar to Seth's own line in the P source), the narrative suddently shitfs back to Adam's third son, Seth, briefly mentions that he fathered Enosh, and adds that “then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.” From there, the Jahwist material appears to jump directly to Noah in Genesis 5:29: “And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.”
Interestingly, Wikiversity proposes that a verse may be missing between these passages, something among the lines of "And Enos begat a son."
How have scholars approached this? Did Seth belong originally to the J source and we are missing that verse, as Wikiversity suggests (or perhaps his own genealogy for that source) or was he added by a redactor to bridge J and P?