Monthly Archives: January 2011

I’m still in Julius Wellhausen’s Prolegomena.  Today, I want to mention two things in my reading that stood out to me. First, on page 486 (which is actually Wellhausen’s article on “Israel” in the Encyclopedia Britannica), Wellhausen states the following: … Continue reading →

My reading of Julius Wellhausen’s Prolegomena today covered some interesting issues.  Much of my reading was about the contribution of P and J (or JE) to the Pentateuch (or, actually, one of the chapters was about the Hexateuch).  Wellhausen indicates … Continue reading →

I’m continuing my way through Julius Wellhausen’s Prolegomena.  Today, I read (among other things) his chapter on Judges, Samuel, and Kings.  Wellhausen’s position seems to be that these books contain independent stories, but they are overlaid with Deuteronomistic ideology—which rebukes … Continue reading →

I’m continuing my way through Julius Wellhausen’s Prolegomena. In today’s reading, Wellhausen argues that the exile influenced the priestly author on issues such as festivals and the Sabbath. For example, the priest interpreted the Feast of Tabernacles in light of … Continue reading →

I started Julius Wellhausen’s Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel, his landmark nineteenth century work of biblical scholarship that divided the Pentateuch into four sources: J (the Yahwist), E (the Elohist), D (the Deuteronomist), and, finally, P (the priest). … Continue reading →

This will be my final post on Fredrik Hagglund’s Isaiah 53 in the Light of Homecoming and Exile. For my previous posts on this book, see here, and here. As we’ve seen in my previous posts, Hagglund argues that the … Continue reading →

I read a couple of articles recently.  The first one was Gerald Sheppard’s “Canonization: Hearing the Voice of the Same God through Historically Dissimilar Traditions,” which was in the January 1, 1982 issue of Interpretation.  The second was John Piper’s … Continue reading →