The section, in its present form, must be post-exilic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Deutero-Isaiah has been worked over by a post-exilic hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

The book received its present form from post-exilic redactors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

On the whole, however, the balance leans to a post-exilic date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Now it is very probable that some of the proverbs are pre-exilic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

The last section (xii. -xiv.) at any rate is obviously post-exilic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

The post-exilic age sharply distinguished itself from the pre-exilic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

This notion is at the core of the Iranian exilic identity formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angella Nazarian: Iranian Americans in the Spotlight] Reference

Again, the peculiar boldness of the discussion suggests a post-exilic date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

The concluding section, however, vii. 7-20, is almost certainly post-exilic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Fortunately we are able to show that the story is, at the earliest, post-exilic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Later, in the post-exilic period, they organized the convocation of the assembly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Chaldean oppression (Jer.xxv. 11, xxix. 10); and the whole chapter may be exilic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

There is no tradition that claims that these Leviticus texts are exilic in origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Book and Gay Marriage] Reference

Ezekiel and the pre-exilic prophets is very great: viz. in his attitude to ritual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Advocates of a pre-exilic date find in the words an allusion to three successors of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

But there can be little doubt that the groups in their present form are post-exilic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Some of these, from exilic and post-exilic times, we have already seen (of, 1., li.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

The cumulative effect of these indications is strongly to suggest a post-exilic date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

There are stray allusions which almost seem to point to pre-exilic days; e.g. to idols, xxvi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

This prophecy, like pre-exilic prophecy, was no doubt conditioned by the historical situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

There can be little doubt, however, that there are pre-exilic psalms or fragments in the Psalter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

This very attitude to prophecy marks the book as late; it would not be possible in a pre-exilic prophet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Even within the post-exilic period, it probably falls quite late -- a precursor of the book of Chronicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

The effect of this cumulative argument has been supposed to be overwhelming in favour of a post-exilic date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Firstly, in not a few respects P is at variance with the legislative programme drawn up by the exilic prophet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

By your own admission, the Holiness Code is assigned by some as an exilic text and by others as a much older text.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Book and Gay Marriage] Reference

The warning not to fear the idols is much more natural if addressed to an exilic audience than to Jeremiah's contemporaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

There is a growing conviction that the passage is post-exilic, some scholars even bringing it down to the Maccabean times, about 163.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

P is therefore referred almost unanimously by scholars to the exilic and early post-exilic age, and may be roughly put about 500 B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Babylonian, but that indigenous to Palestine, and it is described in terms which sometimes sound like an echo of pre-exilic prophecy, lvii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference