exilian

About 3 m. west of Bagdad, on the Euphrates road, in or by a grove of trees, stands the shrine and tomb of Nabi Yusha or Kohen Yusha, a place of monthly pilgrimage to the Jews, who believe it to be the place of sepulture of Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest at the close of the exilian period.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

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

[36] As distinguished from the pre-exilian people.

The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Emile Joseph Dillon 1894

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

In authors of a certainly pre-exilian date tbe word occurs only twice, both times in a perfectly general sense.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

At all times, then, the sacrificial worship of Israel existed, and had great importance attached to it, but in the earlier period it rested upon custom, inherited from the fathers, in the post-exilian on the law of Jehovah, given through Moses.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

This is seen from 2Samuel vii., a section with whose historicity we have here nothing to do, but which at all events reflects the view of a pre-exilian author.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

In truth it is, quite on the contrary, a proof of the post-exilian date of the Priestly Code that it makes sons of Aaron of the priests of the central sanctuary, who, even in the traditional understanding (2Chronicles xiii. 10), are in one way or other simply the priests of

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