Excerpt from Critica Biblica: Or Critical Notes on the d104 of the Old Testament Writings A great period of Biblical criticism has come to a close. There are now few books published by Old Testament scholars as boldly progressive as Kuenen's Onderzoek, Wellhausen's Der d104 Samuelis and Prolegomena, Klostermann's Samuel und Konige; and when, by a happy accident, such an able pioneering work as Gunkel's Schopfung und Chaos is given us, it is to the author's exaggeration of the points in which he appears to differ from Wellhausen that he owes some part of his success. Of the three critics first mentioned, two still remain to us. Klostermann's work, however, has not yet apparently made its public; and Wellhausen, of whom it was once said, in Schiller's words, 'War' er besonnen, war' er nicht der Tell, ' now feels himself 'too old' to trouble himself about the 'very latest criticism, ' and can hardly be said to have put his full strength into his most recent work on the Old Testament. It is no doubt Wellhausen himself who has taught us to apply the highest standard to his books, and he may yet become more manifestly our leader. But so much at least may, without fear of contradiction, be affirmed, that the Old Testament teaching which is now in the ascendant is distinctively cautious, and that scholars generally confine themselves to work in narrow grooves, and use old even if improved methods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."