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Excerpt from Old Testament Theology: Or the History of the Hebrew Religion From the Year 800Professor Driver's admirable work is a new departure altogether in English literature. I am very fortunate in having been able to consult it while reading the proofs of the following pages. The appearance of such works means that our Christian teachers are turning with a new devotion to the Old Testament, and are demanding all possible aid in its study,...

Excerpt from A Hebrew Grammar or an Outline of the Natural System, of the Language, for Students and Ministers This addition to the legion of Hebrew Grammars pleads as its raison d'etre the exigencies of the author's classes learning the Elements. For about a quarter of a century he has been giving the men notes of his lectures in copies made by hand, until the physical toil seems unwise. There has been the advantage that constant improvement...

Excerpt from History of Old Testament CriticismAM asked to tell to a large body Of thoughtful readers what has been the story of the criti cal cr literary handling Of the Old Testament throughout the ages, as scientific study of that literature is at present showing what the story has been. I am told, with admirable frankness, that the only condition laid upon me is that my tale be the true one, I am kindly given to under stand that the Direct...

Excerpt from A History of the Religion of Judaism: 500 to 200 B. C I undertake this task, too large I fear for my power, for several reasons. First, after fifty years of strenuous toil in Montreal and in Bradford, in teaching to many what the Old Testament is, I feel that it would be wrong to throw away unused the mass of lectures I prepared for my classes by a great deal of busy search, so I publish some of my results now. Secondly, I am e...

Excerpt from The First and Second Books of Esdras: EditedFor consider how a knowledge of Jesus and of His Words and Love and Death depends on a knowledge of the people who lived round about Him, and on a knowledge of the nationality He shared with them. To know Jesus depends on knowing the Jew, despised though he has been. Therein the Jew has been singularly like Jesus, writ large, for each has been, and is, a marvellous microcosm, ay, and mac...

Excerpt from Graduation Thesis: Submitted to the Faculty of Arts of McGill College, in Accordance With the Statutes of Mc@gill University, Montreal The story of a life must be interesting, but the history of an idea has a manifold interest, because it is the story of many lives. It is the history of life as it is ever springing into being, ever handed on from one individual to another, gathering the vigour of many ages. Men are not solitary u...

Excerpt from Old Testament Theology, Vol. 2: Or the History of the Hebrew Religion, The Deuteronomic Reformation in Century VII. B. C It will hardly be disputed that at least one half of our people, pastors, teachers, and parents, are ready and even desirous to use the results of the latest study of the Bible, and of Hebrew religious history. Since, then, Christian people are largely moving forward, it is right that all who lead in religiou...

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