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A scholar who quit the seminary
Wellhausen, who lived through Germany's wars of unification, disliked multinational empires and the 'rational' religions they produced. He believed Christians belonged in a national homeland.
Scholars are shaped by their own times.
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Early in his career, he decided he could no longer in good conscience train pastors and left the theological faculty.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 11
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