XIV PREFACE 



public authority in Israel before Josiah ; especially, 

 that the cultus and religious customs rested 

 upon no divine law book; and that the chosen 

 representatives of religion, before the exile, knew 

 nothing whatever of such a law book. 1 



" Deuteronomy is the result of the reformatory 

 movement set afoot by the Prophets. In fact, 

 the Prophets, though unintentionally, became the 

 founders of Judaism and its religion of legality. 

 Therein lies their far-reaching historical influ- 

 ence. But the Prophets stand in complete antag- 

 onism to old Israel. They foretold the fall of 

 kingdom and people, and so commenced a bitter 

 warfare against the traditional conceptions of 

 Israelitic religion. On the other hand, they 

 were much more than founders of the Jewish 

 community: they rise high above later Juda- 

 ism ; in them, the religion of the Old Testament 

 substantially approaches Christianity." (1. c. p. 9,) 



If I were to publish " Helps to the Study of 

 Zoology " for popular use, in which the progress 

 of science in the last fifty years was ignored and 

 every recent authority passed over in silence, I 

 am afraid, and indeed hope, that I should get into 

 great trouble. But to be sure I should be judged 

 by mere lay standards of right and wrong. 



T. H. H. 



HODESLEA, EASTBOURNE 

 October 9th, 1893. 



1 Smend, Lehrbuch der AlttestamenttichenRcMgionsgcsclticlite, 

 1893, p. 8. (Saminlung Theologischer Lehrlnicher.) 



