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Julius Wellhausen
One of the most influential biblical scholars ever, Wellhausen asked why Israel's history ended so differently from that of neighbors like Moab. He thought the riddle unanswerable.
A great scholar's misreading.
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He credited prophets like Amos and Hosea with separating God from the nation so that religion survived as the nation died. The book argues he got the evidence right and the interpretation wrong.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 9–11
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