Such has been
the state of matters since the time of Moses.
Such is the position of affairs as regards the tabernacle; if it
is determined that the age of the Priestly Code is to hang by
these threads, I have no objection. The representation of the
tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in
dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony,
and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered
by a tent. From the temple it derives at once its inner character
and its central importance for the cultus as well as its external
form.
I.III.2. A peculiar point of view is taken up by Theodor Noldeke. He
grants the premisses that the tabernacle is a fiction, of which the
object is to give pre-existence to the temple and to the unity of
worship, but he denies the conclusion that in that case the
Priestly Code presuppose; the unity of worship as already
existing in its day, and therefore is late, than Deuteronomy.
In his Untersuchungen zur Kritik des Alten Testaments (p. 127 seq.)
he says:--
"A strong tendency towards unity of worship MUST have arisen as
soon as Solomon's temple was built.
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