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GRAF, KARL HEINRICH (1815–1869)

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GRAF, KARL HEINRICH (1815–1869) , See also:German Old Testament See also:scholar and orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Mulhausen in See also:Alsace on the 28th of See also:February 1815. He studied Biblical exegesis and See also:oriental See also:languages at the university of See also:Strassburg under E. See also:Reuss, and, after holding various teaching posts, was made instructor in See also:French and See also:Hebrew at the Landesschule of See also:Meissen, receiving in 1852 the See also:title of See also:professor. He died on the 16th of See also:July 1869. Graf was one of the See also:chief founders of Old Testament See also:criticism. In his See also:principal See also:work, See also:Die geschichtlichen See also:Bucher See also:des See also:Allen Testaments (1866), he sought to show that the priestly legislation of See also:Exodus, See also:Leviticus and See also:Numbers is of later origin than the See also:book of See also:Deuteronomy. He still, however, held the accepted view, that the Elohistic narratives formed See also:part of the Grundschrift and therefore belonged to the See also:oldest portions of the See also:Pentateuch. The reasons urged against the contention that the priestly legislation and the Elohistic narratives were separated by a space of 500 years were so strong as to induce Graf, in an See also:essay, " Die sogenannte Grundschrift des Pentateuchs," published shortly before his See also:death, to regard the whole Grundschrift as See also:post-exilic and as the latest portion of the Pentateuch. The See also:idea had already been expressed by E. Reuss, but since Graf was the first to introduce it into See also:Germany, the theory, as See also:developed by See also:Julius See also:Wellhausen, has been called the Graf-Wellhausen See also:hypothesis. Graf also wrote, Der Segen See also:Moses Deut. 33 (1857) and Der See also:Prophet Jeremia erkla.rt (1862).

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Cheyne, Founders of Old Testament Criticism (1893); and See also:Otto See also:Pfleiderer's book translated into See also:English by J. F. See also:Smith as Development of See also:Theology (189o).

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