The Age of the Sixty-Eighth Psalm (App.150) The Composition of Hebrew Names with the Divine Name (App.151) The Age of the Jahvistic Passages (App.153) Remarks upon the Synoptical Table (App.154) Synoptical Table of the Hexateuch, separated according to the different In this Part the following abbreviations are used:- BC= (Canon Cook's) Bible Commentary ; BCC=Bible Commentary Criticized by the Bp. of Natal; The references to the different Parts of this work are made thus-II.373, vi.27, &c. References to the Appendix of the present volume are made thus-- (App.152); to the Appendices of the previous volumes thus: (VI.App. 125). Also in (App.152-4). E' is used for the writer of E.xxv. &c. among the writers Errata Page 183, line 8 from bottom, for Elisha was living at the Gilgal-by-Jericho, not far from the read Elisha was in the camp of Israel, having followed it into the " 196, line 13, for 2K.viii.64 read 1K.viii.64 Appendix, page 29, line 16 from bottom, for on Judah, read in Judah, PRELIMINARY NOTICE. IT WILL be desirable, for the reader's convenience, to prefix a brief statement of the principal results obtained in the preceding portions of this work. In Part III I have fixed the age of the Deuteronomist in the first years of King Josiah. In Part V I have separated the passages due to different writers in the Book of Genesis, have determined approximately the age of those writers-viz. the Elohist (E) in the days of Samuel, the second Elohist (E2) in the beginning of David's reign, the Jehovist (J) in David's reign and the first part of Solomon's and have given at full length the Elohistic Narrative in a separate form. In Part VI I have shown that the whole of Leviticus and all the priestly portions of Exodus, Numbers, and Joshua, with a few verses in Deuteronomy, were written during or after the Captivity, and I have included all these passages under the designation of the Later or Levitical Legislation (L.L.). I have also separated throughout Exodus-Joshua the portions due to the different authors, Elohist, Jehovist, Deuteronomist, and Later Legislator, giving at full length the Original Story, as it came into the hands of the Deuteronomist. CHAPTER I. THE DEUTERONOMISTIC AUTHORSHIP OF THE BOOKS OF KINGS. 1. We shall now proceed to compare the results which we have arrived at in the preceding volumes with the Historical Books of the Old Testament, and in the first place with those which are generally recognized as having been composed before the Captivity, viz. Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, reserving those written after the Captivity, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1 and 2 Chronicles, as well as the prophetical and other Books of the Old Testament, for separate consideration. Our object will be to note carefully every single passage in these Books, which implies an acquaintance on the writer's part with any portion of the Pentateuch,-to determine how far such an acquaintance is consistent with the views here maintained as to the composition of the Pentateuch, taking into account the age in which the writer in question most probably lived,-and especially to observe whether these Books afford any trace of any part of the Levitical Legislation being known to any writer before the Captivity. 2. But a difficulty now arises from the fact that these Books, including the history of about nine centuries, are, as a very little examination shows, and as might naturally be expected, not by any means the work throughout of one and the same hand, or the product of one age. It is probable, however, a priori, that portions of this history, if not the whole, may have been edited by one hand, the narrative being based on older-even contemporary-records which he had before |