Excerpt from The Origin and Religious Contents of the Psalter: In the Light of Old Testament Criticism and the History of Religions; With an Introduction and Appendices It is primarily historical, but also in a very real sense apolo getic. At the present juncture we seem to need a more critical study of the facts which condition the outward form Of Christianity. Some of the most important Of these are Of course to be found in the Old Testament, as the crown Of which we may justly regard the Psalms. The history Of the growth Of the Psalter must therefore first Of all be studied, and if the whole Of it, practically, Should prove to belong to the great post-exilic period, we shall have to compare the religious ideas Of the Psalter, Obtained by a careful exegesis, with those Of the peoples with whom the Israelites came into the closest contact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.