For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy. — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence. — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy. — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah. — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation. — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship. — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
