This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. THE MATERIALS OF SACRIFICE AND THEIB ALLEGED EXTRAORDINARY EVOLUTIONS. WE have now exhausted the first of the two great central topics, round which we explained that Wellhausen's peculiar views of sacrifice may be regarded as grouping themselves. That topic has been the General Attitude ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. THE MATERIALS OF SACRIFICE AND THEIB ALLEGED EXTRAORDINARY EVOLUTIONS. WE have now exhausted the first of the two great central topics, round which we explained that Wellhausen's peculiar views of sacrifice may be regarded as grouping themselves. That topic has been the General Attitude of the Deity towards Sacrifice, so far as that Attitude can be regarded as disclosed by the (so-called) warring writers of Scripture: and we have discussed it in chapters 3--7. The second topic is the Special Peculiarities and Developments, which Wellhausen attributes to Sacrifice, throughout the long course of Israelitish history. And with this we shall now be occupied, in our remaining chapters. We may say, in general, as regards the second great topic thus presented for discussion, that the sacrificial developments, which he here presents, will perhaps be regarded as neither so astounding, nor so far-reaching, in character, as some of those, which we have just been engaged in discussing. We have found these latter to involve such a practical assertion of Naturalism as the only guide for pre-Exilic Israel, such a practical abstention, on God's part (throughout rolling centuries), from all regulative interest in "the main part of worship," such an extraordinary manipulation of the fundamental watchwords of the early prophets, such a singular, and un-demonstrated, assignment of a sacrificial revolution to Ezekiel, and such a general setting of Moses against prophets, of prophets against themselves, and of redactors against all, that we have felt bound to enlarge on the inquiry, "how can these things be "? and to see if the Old Testament be indeed the tissue of hitherto un-discovered contradiction and deception, which the Prolegomena would...
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