A consequence of Alt’s work was the claim that very early, even from its inception, Mosaic Israel operated with distinct theological assumptions. In Alt’s work, we may identify two hypotheses that became crucial for scholarship in the next period. First, in his study of Israelite law, Alt distinguished on form-critical grounds between case law (casuistic law) and apodictic law.51 Case law, which grew out of specific court rulings, is characteristic of law collections that are older than Israel and