Prolegomena to the History of Israel

About this eBook

Author

Wellhausen, Julius, 1844-1918

Credits

This etext was produced by Geoffrey Cowling.

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Category

Text

eBook-No.

4732

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4732

Release Date

December 1, 2003

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.P R E F A C E. — TRANSLATORS' NOTE. — TABLE OF CONTENTS. — INTRODUCTION— — A. HISTORY OF WORSHIP. — CHAPTER I. THE PLACE OF WORSHIP— — CHAPTER II. SACRIFICE— — CHAPTER III. THE SACRED FEASTS— — CHAP. IV. THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES— — CHAPTER V. THE ENDOWMENT OF THE CLERGY— — B. HISTORY OF TRADITION. — CHAPTER VI. CHRONICLES— — CHAPTER VII. JUDGES, SAMUEL, AND KINGS— — CHAPTER VIII. THE NARRATIVE OF THE HEXATEUCH— — C. ISRAEL AND JUDAISM. — CHAPTER IX. CONCLUSION OF THE CRITICISM OF THE LAW— — CHAPTER X. THE ORAL AND THE WRITTEN TORAH— — CHAPTER XI. THE THEOCRACY AS IDEA AND AS INSTITUTION— — I S R A E L. — INTRODUCTION. — A. HISTORY OF THE ORDINANCES OF WORSHIP. — CHAPTER I. THE PLACE OF WORSHIP. — I.III. — CHAPTER II. SACRIFICE. — II.II. — II.III. — CHAPTER III. THE SACRED FEASTS. — III.III. — III.IV. [.1?] — CHAPTER IV. THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES. — IV.I. — IV.II. — IV.III. — CHAPTER V. THE ENDOWMENT OF THE CLERGY. — V.I. — V.II. — B. HISTORY OF TRADITION. — CHAPTER VI. CHRONICLES — VI.I. — VI.II. — VI.III. — CHAPTER VII. JUDGES, SAMUEL, AND KINGS. — VII.I. — VII.II. — Chapter xviii. 6 seq. manifests tendency in a bad sense, even apart from the additions of the Masoretic text. Here Saul's enmity against David is carried back to the very beginning of their relations together, and even his friendship is represented as dissembled hatred. All the honours with which the king covers his armour-bearer are interpreted as practices to get rid of him. He makes him his son-in-law in order to expose him to deadly danger in his efforts to procure the hundred foreskins of the Philistines which were the price of the daughter. The connection cannot dispense with xviii. 6 seq, but at the same time it is beyond doubt that the venomous way of interpreting the facts is a mark of later revision. For Saul here practices his perfidies with the cognisance of his servants, who must therefore have been well aware of his disposition towards David; but the old narrator proceeds on the opposite assumption, that his hatred appeared all at once, and that David had been held by all up to that time to be one of the king's favourite servants: cf. xxi. 2-xxii. 14 seq., not to speak of chapter xx. And this alone agrees with the nature of Saul as it is everywhere described to us. — VI.III. — CHAPTER VIII. THE NARRATIVE OF THE HEXATEUCH. — VIII.I. — VIII.II. — VIII.III. — C. ISRAEL AND JUDAISM. — CHAPTER IX. CONCLUSION OF THE CRITICISM OF THE LAW. — IX.I. — IX.II. — IX.III. — CHAPTER X. THE ORAL AND THE WRITTEN TORAH. — X.I. — X.II. — CHAPTER XI. THE THEOCRACY AS IDEA AND AS INSTITUTION. — XI.I. — XI.II. — ISRAEL — I S R A E L. — 1. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NATION. — 2. THE SETTLEMENT IN PALESTINE. — 3. THE FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM, AND THE FIRST THREE KINGS. — 4. FROM JEROBOAM I. TO JEROBOAM II. — 5. GOD, THE WORLD, AND THE LIFE OF MEN IN OLD ISRAEL. — 6. THE FALL OF SAMARIA. — 7. THE DELIVERANCE OF JUDAH. — 8. THE PROPHETIC REFORMATION. — 9. JEREMIAH AND THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. — 10. THE CAPTIVITY AND THE RESTORATION — 11. JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY. — 12. THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD. — 13. THE HASMONAEANS. — 14. HEROD AND THE ROMANS. — I5. THE RABBINS. — 16. THE JEWISH DISPERSION.

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