Abstract
The phrase on every high hill and under every green tree, or its variants, referring to the location of fertility cult practices, occurs sixteen times in the OT. A complete listing of the passages in which the phrase occurs has been available at least as long ago as S. R. DRIVER 1), but I find no detailed analysis of the variations, nor any attempt to discern literary dependence. The phrase has typically been referred to as a Deuteronomic set-phrase 2), and that is all. What is proposed here is a detailed analysis of the occurrences of the phrase, with (I believe) noteworthy results. My thesis is that it was Jeremiah who standardized the phrase in the form in which is occurs in Je ii 20. The passage are as follows. Dt xii 2 1 9r-n trQnn-15
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