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If I had had De Wette as a student in Bible, I would have
flunked him, because his thesis is based on assuming that
Kings II is accurate. If he had taken the narrative of Chapter 22
of Kings II as authentic, then he would certainly have had to
take Chapter 14 Kings II as equally authentic. Chapter 14
records an incident that took place several generations before
Josiah was born, where Amaziah, king of Judah killed the
people who deposed his father from throne but did not kill their
children because
"as it is written in the Torah of Moses, fathers should not be
killed on account of their children, nor children on account of
their fathers, but each shall perish on the account of his own
sin (Kings II, 14.6)."
The verse referred to in Kings II appears in the Torah in the
Book of Deuteronomy where it states:
"Fathers should not be killed on account of their children, or
children on account of the sins of their fathers. Every man
shall be put to death for his own sin (Deut. 24:16)."
If, according to De Wette, the Book of Deuteronomy was
composed in the time of Josiah, then how was it possible that
a verse that was referred to from the Book of Deuteronomy ap-
peared generations before Josiah was born? There are also
other analogous verses from the Bible cited from Deuteronomy
that chronologically preceded Josiah's reign (Joshua 8:31;
23:6 and I Kings 2:3).
De Wette joined the faculty of theology in Berlin, but
even they could not tolerate his views, and he was dismissed
in 1819 for "liberal views." 254 He was appointed as Professor of
Antiquities and Theology in Basle in 1822, after a short stay in
Weimar.
After De Wette, we find that the nineteenth century Biblical
criticism was finally dominated by Julius Wellhausen (1844-
1918) who was born a Lutheran, and was Professor of Oriental
studies at Halle from 1882 to 1885, and became professor
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