Also Quote by Julius Wellhausen

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

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

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

— Julius Wellhausen

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.

— Julius Wellhausen

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

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

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

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

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

— Julius Wellhausen

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

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

— Julius Wellhausen

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it…

— Julius Wellhausen