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THE ORIGIN OF THE
Canon of the Old Testament. An
Historico-Critical Enquiry
BY
Dp. G. VVildeboeR; Professor at Gr onin g- en.
Translated by
BENJAMIN WISNER BACON, EDITED WITH PREFACE BY PROF. GEORGE
LONDON
M.A.,D.D. F.
MOORE.
I
Esdras
4, 41-
AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
In publishing this investigation
of the origin of the
Canon of the Old Testament the author hopes measure
to
supply a lack.
some
course, a great deal has
Canon, as may be seen from, the
been written about the literature at the end
Of
in
of Strack's
Herzog's Real-Encyclopaedie
\_2
article,
ed.
"
Kanon"
VII. p. 45 f^,
in
and
every work on Introduction has something on the subject.
To name only the
best
of much that
good, I refer to
is
the close of the third part of Prof. Kuenen's Historisch-
Kritisch Onderzoek naar het Ontstaan en de Verzameling
van de Boeken des Ouden Verbonds, Leiden, 186$, III. p.
2g4
—450.
complete,
What
and
it is
has been subjected I
have felt
additional additional ;
is
there given
be said.
to
constrained,
however,
and something of a because,
to
offer
different kind.
naturally,
But my purpose
less
material
most thorough criticism.
something
Something
a quarter of a century there
is
somewhat more
was, also, to publish a work
of somewhat different character.
more or
almost absolutely
needless to say that all the
after Kuenen's excellent work, to
is
I do not refer here to
considerable differences of opinion,
the different plan of the work.
but
to
I have tried to arrive
IV
of the history of canonization,
tenable conception
at a
attention
and have given particular
which were operative in
motives
To
here.
I
and,
material,
But
Testament.
which was
particular,
in
the
treated
have
afforded by
this respect the book
in
and
Schools,
have also introduced some
some fulness the evidence
loith
Much
and
be properly discussed
Jewish
the
in
twelfth, owe their existence.
additional
the causes
fact paragraphs such as the eighth, on the
this
of Canonicity
Idea
*
it.
may
out of place in an Introduction
to
New
the