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ordinarius of theology in Griefswold, a position which he
resigned in 1882, and transferred to Gottingen in 1892.
Wellhausen became famous for what was known as the Graf-
Wellhausen Hypothesis, which attributed the authorship of the
Pentateuch to four authors: J, E, D and P. D standing for the
Deuteronomy code. More formally, the Hypothesis became
known as the, Second Documentary Hypothesis, and D the
author of Deuteronomy was an element that was borrowed
from De Witt's thesis. The theory has never been scientifically
proven; on the contrary, it has been discredited many times in
the past by competent Biblical scholars. Despite this, it still
holds on, because radicals and their fellow travelers have
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Moritz Steinschneider (1816-1907) was born in the town of
Prossnitz, Moravia, to a Sabbatian family. His father Jacob
(1782-1856) was active in the Prague circle of Sabbatians.
The Sabbatian prophet from that locale, Judah Leib Prossnitz,
had an able disciple in Moritz. Steinschneider attended the
Christian school in his community, as well as the yeshiva, and
was ordained as a rabbi. He was considered to be one of the
pioneers of the so-called Jewish science, which was
advocated by Abraham Geiger. In 1833, Steinschneider
moved to the Sabbatian center of Prague. He engaged in
biblical criticism and spent much time in the field of Jewish
bibliography. His close disciples included Solomon Schechter
and Judah Magnes, whom we will discuss in detail in Volume
II. From Gershom Scholem we learn that Gotthold Weil (one of
Steinschneider's last students), upon visiting the aged
Steinschneider in his library toward the end of his life, which
was devoted for seventy years to researching Jewish
bibliography, literature and culture; Weil who had been freshly
inspired by the Jewish students league, gushed forth before
him the ideas of a Jewish "Renaissance and reconstruction of
Judaism as a living entity, but Steinschneider regarded this as
nonsense. Pointing towards his bookcase, he said; "We have
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