P R O L E G O M E N A
to the
HISTORY OF ISRAEL.
WITH A REPRINT OF THE ARTICLE "ISRAEL"
FROM THE "ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA."
by
JULIUS WELLHAUSEN,
PROFESSOR OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF
MARBURG.
TRANSLATED FR0M THE GERMAN, UNDER THE AUTHOR'S SUPERVISION,
by
J. SUTHERLAND BLACK, M.A.,
and
ALLAN MENZIES, B.D.
with a preface by
PROF. W. ROBERTSON SMITH.
P R E F A C E.
The work which forms the greater part of the present volume first
appeared in 1878 under the title "History of Israel. By J.
Wellhausen. In two volumes. Volume I." The book produced a great
impression throughout Europe, and its main thesis, that "the Mosaic
history is not the starting-point for the history of ancient
Israel, but for the history of Judaism," was felt to be so
powerfully maintained that many of the leading Hebrew teachers of
Germany who had till then stood aloof from the so-called "Grafian
hypothesis"--the doctrine, that is, that the Levitical Law and
connected parts of the Pentateuch were not written till after the
fall of the kingdom of Judah, and that the Pentateuch in its
present compass was not publicly accepted as authoritative till
the reformation of Ezra--declared themselves convinced by
Wellhausen's arguments.
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