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In our investigation of the composition of Judg., chap. 191 we saw that the literary question was inextricably interwoven with the historical question. The story in chap. 19, aside from a few minor touches, of which the only really important one is the cutting of the body of the concubine into twelve pieces and sending them into every one of the twelve tribes, makes the impression of antiquity and historical probability. But it is connected now with a story which Wellhausen has so conclusively shown to be legendary, that nobody can deny that in its present form the story is a late unhistorical Midrash. Further investigation, however, has convinced Moore, Budde, et al., that there is an older nucleus in these chapters which still shines through. As to the process which resulted in our present narrative they are not agreed. Moore believes "that an author of the age and school of the Chronicler substituted for the middle of the original story a Midrash of his own." Budde has come to the conclusion that two pre-exilic sources were combined by a redactor with a late post-exilic Midrash, which had originally existed separately. Budde has won the assent of Nowack altogether, and for his m

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Author

Julius A. Bewer

Published

1914

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)