THE RELATIONS OF OLD TESTAMENT SCIENCE TO THE 

 ALLIED DEPARTMENTS AND TO SCIENCE IN GENERAL 



BY KARL FERDINAND REINHARD BUDDE 

 {Translated from the German by the American Journal of Theology) 



[Karl Ferdinand Reinhard Budde, Professor in ordinary of Old Testament Theology, 

 University of Marburg, Germany, b. April 13, 1850, Bensberg, Rhenish Prussia. 

 Bonn, 1867-68; Berlin, 1868-69; Bonn, 1869-70-71; Utrecht, 1871-73; D.D. 

 Giessen, 1883. Privat-docent, Bonn, 1873-79; Professor extraordinary, Bonn, 

 1879-89; Professor, Strassburg, 1889; Professor ordinary, Strassburg, 1889- 

 1900; Professor ordinary, Marburg, 1900 . Member Society of Biblical Lit- 

 erature, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science. Author of Biblical Primeval 

 History Investigated; The Rooks of Judges and Samuel; The Religion of Israel 

 to the Exile; The Canon of the Old Testament; and many other books and essays.] 



PERMIT me to begin my address with a personal reminiscence. 

 It was just six years ago yesterday that I stepped for the first time 

 upon the soil of the New World. I was invited here by the Com- 

 mittee for the American Lectures on the History of Religions, to 

 deliver a course of lectures upon " The Religion of Israel to the 

 Exile." When I closed the first lecture in that course at one of your 

 oldest and most important universities, a colleague from the depart- 

 ment of science came up and greeted me most kindly with the words : 

 "Why, you really use the same methods as we." Now, it is just 

 this to which our opponents object, and with which they re- 

 proach us Old Testament students who take a critical standpoint. 

 We have even been branded with the beautiful name " evolutionary 

 theorists." Nevertheless, I was far from being unpleasantly affected 

 by that first greeting. On the contrary, I expressed to the represent- 

 ative of the exact sciences my sincere pleasure that he had felt so 

 directly the affinity between us, and I found in it additional ground 

 for the hope that I was on the right road with my deductions. 



To this truth, that all genuine science forms one living body 

 through which the same blood courses, which is animated and nour- 

 ished by the same forces and by the same means, no such tangible 

 and overpowering expression has ever been given as in this Congress 

 of Arts and Science which here unites us, their representatives from 

 the whole educated world, in the bonds of brotherhood. One of the 

 two addresses in every department is specially intended to show how 

 the several branches of science manifest their particular relation to 

 science as a whole. This is the task confided to me for my special 

 branch. Allow me to interpret the winged word of six years ago as a 

 prophecy of our present meeting, and at the same time as an encour- 

 aging sign that I may in fact fulfill the intention of these addresses, 

 and so meet the expectation of the Congress. I may be permitted 



