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Quotes About Priestly Code

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.
~ Julius Wellhausen
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
~ Julius Wellhausen
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.
~ Julius Wellhausen