In the Omayyads the ancient aristocracy of Mecca came to the helm, and under them, the Mohammedan state was above all, as Wellhausen styled it, "the Arabian Empire."

Spain Sprenger Stambul Sultan Sunnah Sunnites Syria Syrians T Taif Tatars Testament, see Scriptures Tibet Tradition, see Hadith Trinity Turkey Sultan of Turkish, Empire circles conqueror Sultan arms government state officials Turks U 'Ulamâ' (learned men) V Voltaire W Wahhâbî reformers Weil Wellhausen Wezîrs Y Yemen Imâms of Z Zaidites Zakât (taxes)

Munich, 1904. J. Wellhausen.

Wellhausen puts the truth very neatly when he says, "The Jewish scholars say, 'All that Jesus said is also to be found in the Talmud.'

Hastings, D.B., IV, 92-3; Wellhausen, The Book of Psalms (in S.B. O.T.), 217-9. 3.

This rather contradicts Wellhausen: 'In all ancient primitive peoples ... religion furnishes a motive for law and morals; in the case of none did it become so with such purity and power as in that of the Israelites.'

Wellhausen says that Jehovah was 'originally a family or tribal god, either of the family of Moses or of the tribe of Joseph.'

Wellhausen's and other German ideas filter into popular traditions, as we saw, through 'A Short Introduction to the History of Ancient Israel' (pp. 19, 20), by the Rev. A.W. Oxford, M.A., Vicar of St. Luke's, Soho.

Wellhausen himself had explained Jehovah as 'a family or tribal god, either of the family of Moses' (tribe of Levi) 'or of the tribe of Joseph.'

The former (with the alternative of Joseph's family or tribal god) is Wellhausen's theory.

Each is inconsistent with the other; Wellhausen's fancy is inconsistent with all that we know of religious development: Stade's is hopelessly inconsistent with Exodus iv.

The leading ideas of Wellhausen, for example, are conspicuous for acumen: the humblest layman can see that.

[Footnote 16: Wellhausen, History of Israel, p. 437.

Wellhausen has already been cited to the same effect.