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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - WELLHAUSEN, JULIUS: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Wellhausen has written extensively on subjects of vital interest to the student of the Bible and of Judaism and other religions. |
 | | It is, consequently, the law-book of Judaism and the religion of the post-exilic congregation, the cult of the Israelites and Hebrews being held to have been a crude tribal Semitic nature-worship which culminated in a henotheistic Jahvistic nationalism, against which the Prophets, as the preachers of ethical righteousness, often had to protest. |
 | | His series of "Skizzen und Vorarbeiten," which includes a commentary on the Minor Prophets, seeks in the third volume ("Reste Arabischen Heidenthums," Berlin, 1887) to elucidate and elaborate by a presentation of primitive Arabic paganism the analogies between the original Hebrew religion and the cults of the pre-Mohammedan Arabs. |
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