post-exilian

Much stress is laid upon this and other seeming discrepancies to conclude that the description of the tabernacle found in Ex., xxv-xxxi, xxxix-xl, is the work of post-exilian authors of the Priestly Code.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

True, the chronicler, who lived in the post-exilian epoch, says of the Ark (II Par., v, 9) that "it was been there unto this day".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

He seems to be of the opinion that the post-exilian time would not have ventured to take in hand so thoroughgoing an alteration, or rather reconstruction, of tradition as is implied in antedating the temple of Solomon by means of the tabernacle.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

Now, in so far as the statistics of the clergy have a real basis at all, that basis is post-exilian.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

In Chronicles this is clericalised in the taste of the post-exilian time, which had no feeling longer for anything but cultus and torah, which accordingly treated as alien the old history (which, nevertheless, was bound to be a sacred history), if it did not conform with its ideas and metamorphose itself into church history.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

The material of tradition seems broken up in an extraneous medium, the spirit of post-exilian Judaism.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

But this kernel is amplified by a number of post-exilian additions.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

It is hardly necessary to add here expressly that also in regard to the day of atonement as a day sacred above all others the Priestly Code became authoritative for the post-exilian period.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

It is reserved for the last (exilian or post-exilian) stage of the development of the tradition to place him in the opposite position of one who resists to the uttermost the desire of the people to have a king.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

For, as the festival system of the Priestly Code absolutely refuses to accommodate itself to the manner of the older worship as we are made acquainted with it in Hos. ii., ix. and elsewhere, in the same degree does it furnish in every respect the standard for the praxis of post-exilian Judaism, and, therefore, also for our ideas thence derived.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881