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 and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority. — 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
