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Excerpt from Traditions Beliefs of Ancient Israel From Hugo Winckler, whose brilliant pioneering works I have often commended to advanced students,1 I am partly separated, not only by my own deeper interest in religious ideas, but also by my long-reached conviction of the necessity of an improved textual criticism. As a textual critic, Winckler is no doubt on the whole bolder than Meyer, but he is deficient in method, and singularly incon sistent. Sometimes one is struck with surprise at his fertility in conjecture, and yet, on turning the page, one finds him unsuspiciously conservative where there is a loud call for methodical correction. The reason may perhaps be that he has not realised the extent of the danger to which all 'the Hebrew texts, narrative as well as poetical or prophetic, were for centuries exposed. I am not surprised that Baentsch has recently become a decided follower of Winckler.2 Not being himself an advanced textual critic, there was little but educational prejudice to hinder him from doing so, and any educational prejudices his fearless love of truth has overcome. 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.

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