This homiletic improvement of the catastrophe was an inviting task, and besides the author of Kings, the exilian continuator and perhaps still later editors contributed to draw it out and emphasize it.
This prediction is made from the standpoint of the accomplished fact, and indeed most of the chapter seems to be by the exiliancontinuator of Kings or a still later writer.
In the post-exilian period the septenniad was in force.
In the post-exilian period the virtuous wife is represented as laborious as a Roman matron, a "lady bountiful" to the poor, and to her husband wife and friend alike.
In ordinary pre-exilian high places the custom described in the primitive compend of laws (Ex.
It undoubtedly existed in pre-exilian Israel, especially in times of crisis or calamity, for the appeasement of an offended deity (2 Sam.
In the post-exilian cosmogony it is the divine word or fiat that creates the world (Gen.
In the writings of the pre-exilian period we have frequent references to supernatural personalities good and bad.
The pre-exilian prophets (especially Isaiah) spoke of the forthcoming crisis in the world's history as a "day of the Lord.
References to them abound in pre-exilian literature: Judges xxi.
In the historical evolution of Hebrew sacrifice it is remarkable how long this non-ethical and primitive survival of old custom still survived, even far into post-exilian times.
The emergence of Satan as a definite supernatural personality, the head or prince of the world of evil spirits, is entirely a phenomenon of post-exilian Judaism.
The most vivid portraiture of Sheol is to be found in theexilian passage Isa.
This supreme official, who was destined ultimately to take the place of the king in the church-nation of post-exilian Judaism, is mentioned for the first time in Zech.
In the Trito-Isaiah during the post-exilian period, and in such psalm literature as Pss.
The wide prevalence of magic and soothsaying may be illustrated from the historical books of the Old Testament as well as from the pre-exilian prophets.
But how can any one believe that all these are merely accidental coincidences of a post-exilian forgery with the facts of the incarnation, and the high priestly work of Christ in death and resurrection as set forth in the Gospels?
In authors of a certainly pre-exilian date tbe word occurs only twice, both times in a perfectly general sense.
It is in accordance with this that the sacrificial ordinances as regards their positive contents are no less completely ignored by antiquity than they are scrupulously followed by the post-exilian time.
David himself before the ark, and a festal cantata made up by him out of post-exilian psalms is quoted (chapter xvi.
It is not to be wondered at if in the post-exilian temple there existed both a golden altar and a golden table.
The material of tradition seems broken up in an extraneous medium, the spirit of post-exilian Judaism.
But the Priestly Code exhibits some peculiarities by which it is distinguished from the pre-exilian remains in matters sacrificial.
In this respect the attitude of Jeremiah is that which is taken also by his exilian followers, not merely by Ezekiel (xx.
It is reserved for the last (exilian or post-exilian) stage of the development of the tradition to place him in the opposite position of one who resists to the uttermost the desire of the people to have a king.
But this kernel is amplified by a number of post-exilian additions.
The institution of the =Synagogues= was of the greatest importance for the spread and development of post-exilian Judaism.
Or is this March feast of the Tammuz kind an addition to the old pre-exilian Jewish Tammuz feast?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exilian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
