). !Lien' ( 1901 ) and I tert helot (1901) agree in regarding I.c%. i.-%ti. and Lev. xis xv. a, Independent minor t:raf 1157I ) that the priestly writer crag only a supplementer of the earlier text. 1:loster11anit (189:11 this writer as the editor of the Pentateuell. Sehinidh (1902) also thinks that the so-called Priestly Document. never existed as separate code, hut consists of II mf ti011s, and emollients added to the already exist• ing books by the priesthood in Jerusalem. chiefly during the Persian period. As the Book of Joshua has been subjected to a thorough priestly redac tion, while the books of Judge. Samuel, and Kings have only been edited by 1111.11 Writing in the Spirit of Deutersamm•. the 11111,1ifin naturally arise; why doslum should have fared differently front the rest of the 'former prophibts.' The answer generally given is that the Priestly 1)oell ment ended with the conquest of Canaan. and that the Book of Joshua wa; cut 111/111 the once existing Ilexateuch. But Eduard :tleyer is probably right in holding that there never was any Ilexateueli. but that the Law, Joshua, Judge;, Saltine], and king. sire formed one great historic work. This to have hem' essen tially a Dcuteronomistie work. The additions made in priestly circle, affected some facts more than others. As the section dealing Mini events up to the death of Aloses came to he regarded as 'the Law' the rest formed a class by th•m selves. The division of the Law into live parts probably does not go hark to the time when the Bonk of .Inslom formed a part of the great
work. The term Ilexatembh is therefore likely to dkappear, while the observations that led to its use are seen to be riecitrate, and the theory framed to aceount for them is recognized tinny sound.
litratosatAelly. Consult the later esmimentaries on the books of the Ilexateneh: the int roslitetions to the Dld Testament of Illeck-Wellhansen. ror nill. Driver. and \\"iblehocr; the Hebrew histories of kittel and Piepenbring. which Mellishe of literary sources; the article "lTex ateueh" Icy rheyne in the raeoeforrdia iti/s/M: id.. by NVood, in the Hastings Dielionnry of the Bible: Westphal. Les .cones du l'intriteuelt (Paris, IA921 ; lumen. Tb• Ile.rateuch t Eng. trans., London. Igsns ; Wellhausem Die ries orb I Berlin, 1SS9 1 : llolsbrt.on Smith. The 1)1,1 Tc.clnmnrnl Church (21 ed.. Edinburgh. Ism'_') Dorrinirnls of the lle.ro (1,on shah IS92-9s) ; f'inbits,n9 (1,11 Ileralcurli (Freiburg. I5931: 1:lostersitann.
trage zur ['enter fruclis (Leipzig. I ti9t ; tersle•-l'arpenter.
The /Jean/es/eh (London, 1900) : Easttzseh, Die .11tris 7'estaineilis (Freiburg, 1SMI; F.ng. trans.. Nets* York. 1'399). a clear and concise survey of the sacred literature of the T-Iehro•s. For arguments in support of the traditional view, consult Creen. hoses i'rophets (New York. I553); ill., MI' //11./rCIO I casts (ib., lti`-t(t); and Ihr .cries of articles by llarper and in //, brain:, vols. v.-viii„ (1tisee92). See the articles upon the books of the 11ex:stench; also El.outsr Am) Ynu•is•; Ezn.%; Ezt.hti ; NiArEt