One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually d…

- 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 is com…

- 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 Mosaic period, and, with wha…

- Julius Wellhausen

From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordi…

- Julius Wellhausen

Until the building of Solomons temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy…

- Julius Wellhausen

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local 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 is the normal …

- Julius Wellhausen

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

- Julius Wellhausen

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

- Julius Wellhausen