The Croall Lectures, 1893-94 THE POETRY AND THE RELIGION OF THE PSALMS BY JAMES ROBERTSON, D.D. = PROFESSOR OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW AUTHOR OF 'THE EARLY RELIGION OF ISRAEL' ETC. NEW YORK DODD, MEAD, AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS MDCCCXCVIII All Rights reserved PREFACE. THE following pages are devoted to a consideration of the Place of the Psalms in the History and the Religion of the Old Testament, and under that title they were delivered as the Croall Lectures for 1893-94. I have to thank the Trustees for extending to me the time allowed for the publication of the Lectures. The delay has enabled me to return once and again, as I was desirous of doing, in something of the attitude of a critic of my own positions. When one's conclusions do not agree with the current views of those who are regarded as authorities, it becomes him at least not to be rash in the publication of them. Besides rearranging the material in the more convenient form of chapters, I have not hesitated to refer to such works as may have been published |