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Wellhausen has suggested that the intellectual development of Judaism with its tendency to become a purified monotheism moved in the same direction towards which Greek thought tended in its philosophical speculation of the universe.
Can any one conceive that a writer of laws, living in Palestine hundreds of years afterwards, could have fabricated these allusions to the camp life and the tent life of the people? Such a novelist did not exist among them; and I question whether Professor Kuenen and Professor Wellhausen, with all their wealth of imagination, could have done any such thing.
VR. 61, col. iv. ll. 33, 34. IR. 7, no. ix. Heuzey in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée, p. 209. Several examples occur in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée. See also Ward, Proc. Amer. Oriental Soc., May, 1888, p. xxix, and Peters' Nippur, ii. pl. 2. Wellhausen, Reste Arabischen Heidenthums, p. 106. Grotefend Cylinder, col. li. ll. 36-39.
But to Wellhausen, Stade, Eduard Meyer and Kittel and Cornill, it has been clear that the history of the earliest times is the most uncertain. It is the least adapted to furnish a secure point of departure for historical inquiry. There exist for it usually no contemporary authorities, or only such as are of problematical worth.
Allah is not, like the other beings we have spoken of, a historical god, with a legend, a shrine, a tribe all to himself. He is not a historical personage, but an idea consolidated, no doubt at an early period, into a god. Wellhausen traces the rise of Allah for us in a most interesting way.
If the faith of Israel was to fulfil its mission to the world it was necessary that some one should come who could purge this threshing-floor, burning the chaff and gathering up the wheat to be the seed of the progress of mankind. The Histories of Israel; Ewald, Kuenen, Wellhausen, Stade. Robertson Smith's The Old Testament in the Jewish Church, and articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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