326 The Fundamentals. 0£ the foundation of his Pentateuchal criticism in these words : "The returning exiles were thoroughly imbued with the ideas of Josiah's reformation and had no thought of worshiping i e n x g c s ep t t o i l n ea J v e e r t u h s e al r e u m in . ed It H c i o g s h t P th la e c m es n u o nb sa u c il r t i . fic F e r o o f m th th e i i s r d fe a e t l e , all Jews understood, as a matter of course, that the one God had only one sanctuary." So much Wellhausen. But here is this petition of the Jews at Syene in the year 407 B. C. after Nehemiah's return declaring that they had built a temple there a d n en d c e in st g ab a l l i s s o he t d ha a t s t y h s e t y em ex o p f e w ct o e r d sh t i h p e a a n p d pr o o f v s a a l c o ri f fic t e h s e , a J n ew d s ev a i t Jerusalem in rebuilding that temple and re-establishing that s e a r c n r o i r fic o i f al t w he or J s e h w ip s , p a e n r d m , i w ss h io a n t is so m t o o re d , o r , e a ce t i h v i e n d g f w ro h m ich t , he ha g d ov i t b si e s e te n nt op w p i o t s h ed th b e y Je t w he ish Je p w o s lic a y t o J f er t u h s e al P em ers w ia a n s E u m tte p r i l r y e i in n co th n e days of Nehemiah. NEW TESTAMENT GREEK. 5. Then the redating of the Hermetic writings < 55 > whereby they are thrown back from the Christian era to 500-300 r B i . al C f . or op t e r n a s cin u g p t a he co r m is p e le a te n l d y p n r e o w gre s s o s ur o c f e t o h f eo c l r o i g ti i c c a al l t m e a rm tes in the Alexandrian Greek of the New Testament. In a recent l j e e t c t t e , r h f e r s o u m m P s e u t p rie th , e w w ho ho h le as ca w se r , it a te s n he a s l e it e t s le it b , o i o n k th o e n se th w e or su d b su : "My position simply is that the current religious phrases and i s d ta e n as d t o h f e t u h s e ag B e . s C of . r a e g li e gi m ou u s st la b n e gu g a r g a e sp i e n d w i h n ic o h rd th e e r N to ew un T de e r s tament is written. And we can never know the real motive of New Testament writings until we know how much is new thought and how much is current theology in terms of which the Eu-angelos is expressed." Whether or not all the new dates for the writings shall be permitted to stand, and Petrie's point of view be justified, a discussion of the dates and a criti-
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