Talk:Julius Wellhausen

Deathdate
Please note, in the article in the German version (de:Julius Wellhausen) he died 10 days before he died in the English version. What is his real day of death? -- 20:43, 1 March 2006‎ 62.0.129.58

2008
Wellhausen died on 1918 January 7. Someone has correctly harmonized the English and German Wikipedias. Richard David Ramsey 03:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Inaccurate generalization of Wellhausen's approach
From Chronic2 (talk) 15:08, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

The phrase "uncompromising scientific attitude" as applied to Wellhausen's studies in this article is questionable. Recent scholarship has better characterized his approach as a "deductive" methodology. The use of "scientific" is inexact and inappropriate, since it has not been demonstrated that Wellhausen used the scientific method, as defined in the relevant Wikipedia article, in his writing. To be accurate and in accord with scholarly studies of his work, the phrase should be changed to "uncompromising deductive method." Citations should be given that define more specifically Wellhausen's approach, and further citations showing how he used this approach to reconstruct Israel's history.

Chronic2 (talk) 15:08, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Evaluations of Wellhausen's methods in recent scholarship
User:PiCo,

You has removed the this section from this Article. You gave POV as the reason. It is a substantial part of the article. I am not an expert in this field but I think that the article has lost a lot of useful information. What about reinstalling it and marking up the sentences that you believe are POV.

Thanks TomyDuby (talk) 14:54, 24 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm trying to keep the article to a dispassionate outline of Wellhausen's achievement as a scholar. PiCo (talk) 23:49, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposal to redirect Ritual decalogue to Covenant code
Please see my proposal here and comment/vote. Thanks, Slrubenstein  |  Talk 15:47, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

External Link
The 'What is the JEDP Theory? at GotQuestions.org' link not especially concerned with Julius Wellhausen, nor is it a good refutation of Documentary Hypothesis. I'm not especially familiar with WP rules, but I don't think that link has a place on a biographical article of Wellhausen.Stelorl (talk) 05:36, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 20:43, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Perceived anti-Jewish bias
Jewish scholars of religion were rarely satisfied with Wellhausen's treatment of Judaism. The old Jewish Encyclopedia said "Although his works are monuments of marvelous scholarship, they may be said to be marred by an unmistakable anti-Jewish bias and a consequent ignoring of the labors of Jewish writers." and Solomon Schechter said that the "Higher Criticism" should really be called the "Higher Anti-Semitism". AnonMoos (talk) 15:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Yeah, those German scholars saw Protestantism as the peak of religion, and therefore saw the rituals of Judaism as decadent religion, this has been properly explained by newer scholars. Tgeorgescu (talk) 19:28, 3 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Wellhausen did engage in anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic polemics, and he conflated his own religious prejudices with his scholarly work. But this is something known to all serious Bible scholars, a sign that in his time Bible scholarship was yet in a rather puerile (or unprofessional) stage of development. His JEDP is no longer the dominant paradigm of European Bible scholars, but scores highly in the US. tgeorgescu (talk) 22:25, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

This article should mention Graf
Wellhaussen worked with a Bible scholar called "Graf", and the Documentary hypothesis used to be known as the "Graf-Wellhaussen hypothesis". Why is there no mention of Graf in this article? Rollo August (talk) 18:53, 30 December 2022 (UTC)