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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. I890] Synopses of Important Articles. 49 Little Compton, R. I. The tablet contains 32 lines, more or less defaced. At its head is the name and title of a hitherto unknown king. " Chit-het," who, in the fourteenth year of his reign, speaks of " the very great misfortune of having no overflow of the Nile for seven years." Certain peculiarities in the style of writing and in the grouping of hieroglyphics assign this stone to the fourth century B. C. Evidently somebody had taken an old story of a seven years' famine and clothed it in modern dress for the purpose of exciting respect for some fourth century divinity. In the reign of this ancient king the seven years of famine had closed with the fourteenth year of his reign. The seven '" fat years" had preceded them. The throne name of this king, different from his family name, has been found once, on an inscription over a door in the great pyramid of Sakkara, from which it appears that the king belonged to the first Egyptian dynasty, at least I,500 years before the time of Joseph. The old story, with the name of the old king, was revamped in the XXII dynasty as a pious fraud by the priests. Dr. Brugsch believes in the real historical character of this newly-found stone, and calls Chit-het " the longest forgotten king of any epoch ;" and he says that the stone will be prized through all time as an important piece of evidence for the actual occurrence of a seven years' famine in the time of Joseph. Compilation in the Old Testament.*-Few scholars would dispute the statement that recent investigation into structure, composition and style, has revealed the compilatory character of a large proportion of the books of the Old Testament. But few have realized its significance. It must ultimately influence the attitude of modern Christian teaching towards many problems that centre around Holy Scripture. The critical study of such facts as these provokes opposition, and students should have patient sympathy with such opposition, which rises out of reverence for the Bible and fear lest its authority and devotional power may be weakened in the popular mind. Other manifest objections to such study arise, such as want of historical and literary sympathy with the ancient Semitic mind, the unwillingness to let one's vision be modified, the fact that biblical criticism will never escape misunderstanding on the part of those who do not wish to welcome it. If we approach the literary analysis of the Old Testament with a recognition of the moral and religious significance of it as a whole, we will not be harmed but delighted with the new light gained. The books will be found to be largely compilations from the literary remains of many epochs, not written wholes, as ordinarily supposed, referrible to some distinguished name. This is true of the Psalter, which contains poetry from David to the Maccabees; Ecclesiastes is not Solomonic; Job, a post-exilic writing; Proverbs has many groups of sayings welded together; Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and Daniel illustrate characteristic phases in the compilatory process. The same is true of the historical books. The Pentateuch is very generally regarded as made up of four sources. We must be ready to allow these facts. It will be found that this element of compilation, so strange and startling, may unexpectedly aid us in our understanding and enjoyment of the books of Scripture. (i) It enables us to reconcile what seem to be confusions of facts, statements and forms of thought and language belonging to different ages, which stand together in the same book. (2) We are carried back to re-* The full title of the paper is The Study of the Old Testament, with Special Reference to the Element of Compilation in the Structure of the Books, by Rev. Professor Herbert E. Ryle, in the Expositor, May, I890, pp. 321-339. 4 I890] Synopses of Important Articles. 49 Little Compton, R. I. The tablet contains 32 lines, more or less defaced. At its head is the name and title of a hitherto unknown king. " Chit-het," who, in the fourteenth year of his reign, speaks of " the very great misfortune of having no overflow of the Nile for seven years." Certain peculiarities in the style of writing and in the grouping of hieroglyphics assign this stone to the fourth century B. C. Evidently somebody had taken an old story of a seven years' famine and clothed it in modern dress for the purpose of exciting respect for some fourth century divinity. In the reign of this ancient king the seven years of famine had closed with the fourteenth year of his reign. The seven '" fat years" had preceded them. The throne name of this king, different from his family name, has been found once, on an inscription over a door in the great pyramid of Sakkara, from which it appears that the king belonged to the first Egyptian dynasty, at least I,500 years before the time of Joseph. The old story, with the name of the old king, was revamped in the XXII dynasty as a pious fraud by the priests. Dr. Brugsch believes in the real historical character of this newly-found stone, and calls Chit-het " the longest forgotten king of any epoch ;" and he says that the stone will be prized through all time as an important piece of evidence for the actual occurrence of a seven years' famine in the time of Joseph. Compilation in the Old Testament.*-Few scholars would dispute the statement that recent investigation into structure, composition and style, has revealed the compilatory character of a large proportion of the books of the Old Testament. But few have realized its significance. It must ultimately influence the attitude of modern Christian teaching towards many problems that centre around Holy Scripture. The critical study of such facts as these provokes opposition, and students should have patient sympathy with such opposition, which rises out of reverence for the Bible and fear lest its authority and devotional power may be weakened in the popular mind. Other manifest objections to such study arise, such as want of historical and literary sympathy with the ancient Semitic mind, the unwillingness to let one's vision be modified, the fact that biblical criticism will never escape misunderstanding on the part of those who do not wish to welcome it. If we approach the literary analysis of the Old Testament with a recognition of the moral and religious significance of it as a whole, we will not be harmed but delighted with the new light gained. The books will be found to be largely compilations from the literary remains of many epochs, not written wholes, as ordinarily supposed, referrible to some distinguished name. This is true of the Psalter, which contains poetry from David to the Maccabees; Ecclesiastes is not Solomonic; Job, a post-exilic writing; Proverbs has many groups of sayings welded together; Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and Daniel illustrate characteristic phases in the compilatory process. The same is true of the historical books. The Pentateuch is very generally regarded as made up of four sources. We must be ready to allow these facts. It will be found that this element of compilation, so strange and startling, may unexpectedly aid us in our understanding and enjoyment of the books of Scripture. (i) It enables us to reconcile what seem to be confusions of facts, statements and forms of thought and language belonging to different ages, which stand together in the same book. (2) We are carried back to re-* The full title of the paper is The Study of the Old Testament, with Special Reference to the Element of Compilation in the Structure of the Books, by Rev. Professor Herbert E. Ryle, in the Expositor, May, I890, pp. 321-339. I890] Synopses of Important Articles. 49 Little Compton, R. I. The tablet contains 32 lines, more or less defaced. At its head is the name and title of a hitherto unknown king. " Chit-het," who, in the fourteenth year of his reign, speaks of " the very great misfortune of having no overflow of the Nile for seven years." Certain peculiarities in the style of writing and in the grouping of hieroglyphics assign this stone to the fourth century B. C. Evidently somebody had taken an old story of a seven years' famine and clothed it in modern dress for the purpose of exciting respect for some fourth century divinity. In the reign of this ancient king the seven years of famine had closed with the fourteenth year of his reign. The seven '" fat years" had preceded them. The throne name of this king, different from his family name, has been found once, on an inscription over a door in the great pyramid of Sakkara, from which it appears that the king belonged to the first Egyptian dynasty, at least I,500 years before the time of Joseph. The old story, with the name of the old king, was revamped in the XXII dynasty as a pious fraud by the priests. Dr. Brugsch believes in the real historical character of this newly-found stone, and calls Chit-het " the longest forgotten king of any epoch ;" and he says that the stone will be prized through all time as an important piece of evidence for the actual occurrence of a seven years' famine in the time of Joseph. Compilation in the Old Testament.*-Few scholars would dispute the statement that recent investigation into structure, composition and style, has revealed the compilatory character of a large proportion of the books of the Old Testament. But few have realized its significance. It must ultimately influence the attitude of modern Christian teaching towards many problems that centre around Holy Scripture. The critical study of such facts as these provokes opposition, and students should have patient sympathy with such opposition, which rises out of reverence for the Bible and fear lest its authority and devotional power may be weakened in the popular mind. Other manifest objections to such study arise, such as want of historical and literary sympathy with the ancient Semitic mind, the unwillingness to let one's vision be modified, the fact that biblical criticism will never escape misunderstanding on the part of those who do not wish to welcome it. If we approach the literary analysis of the Old Testament with a recognition of the moral and religious significance of it as a whole, we will not be harmed but delighted with the new light gained. The books will be found to be largely compilations from the literary remains of many epochs, not written wholes, as ordinarily supposed, referrible to some distinguished name. This is true of the Psalter, which contains poetry from David to the Maccabees; Ecclesiastes is not Solomonic; Job, a post-exilic writing; Proverbs has many groups of sayings welded together; Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and Daniel illustrate characteristic phases in the compilatory process. The same is true of the historical books. The Pentateuch is very generally regarded as made up of four sources. We must be ready to allow these facts. It will be found that this element of compilation, so strange and startling, may unexpectedly aid us in our understanding and enjoyment of the books of Scripture. (i) It enables us to reconcile what seem to be confusions of facts, statements and forms of thought and language belonging to different ages, which stand together in the same book. (2) We are carried back to re-* The full title of the paper is The Study of the Old Testament, with Special Reference to the Element of Compilation in the Structure of the Books, by Rev. Professor Herbert E. Ryle, in the Expositor, May, I890, pp. 321-339. 4 I890] Synopses of Important Articles. 49 Little Compton, R. I. The tablet contains 32 lines, more or less defaced. At its head is the name and title of a hitherto unknown king. " Chit-het," who, in the fourteenth year of his reign, speaks of " the very great misfortune of having no overflow of the Nile for seven years." Certain peculiarities in the style of writing and in the grouping of hieroglyphics assign this stone to the fourth century B. C. Evidently somebody had taken an old story of a seven years' famine and clothed it in modern dress for the purpose of exciting respect for some fourth century divinity. In the reign of this ancient king the seven years of famine had closed with the fourteenth year of his reign. The seven '" fat years" had preceded them. The throne name of this king, different from his family name, has been found once, on an inscription over a door in the great pyramid of Sakkara, from which it appears that the king belonged to the first Egyptian dynasty, at least I,500 years before the time of Joseph. The old story, with the name of the old king, was revamped in the XXII dynasty as a pious fraud by the priests. Dr. Brugsch believes in the real historical character of this newly-found stone, and calls Chit-het " the longest forgotten king of any epoch ;" and he says that the stone will be prized through all time as an important piece of evidence for the actual occurrence of a seven years' famine in the time of Joseph. Compilation in the Old Testament.*-Few scholars would dispute the statement that recent investigation into structure, composition and style, has revealed the compilatory character of a large proportion of the books of the Old Testament. But few have realized its significance. It must ultimately influence the attitude of modern Christian teaching towards many problems that centre around Holy Scripture. The critical study of such facts as these provokes opposition, and students should have patient sympathy with such opposition, which rises out of reverence for the Bible and fear lest its authority and devotional power may be weakened in the popular mind. Other manifest objections to such study arise, such as want of historical and literary sympathy with the ancient Semitic mind, the unwillingness to let one's vision be modified, the fact that biblical criticism will never escape misunderstanding on the part of those who do not wish to welcome it. If we approach the literary analysis of the Old Testament with a recognition of the moral and religious significance of it as a whole, we will not be harmed but delighted with the new light gained. The books will be found to be largely compilations from the literary remains of many epochs, not written wholes, as ordinarily supposed, referrible to some distinguished name. This is true of the Psalter, which contains poetry from David to the Maccabees; Ecclesiastes is not Solomonic; Job, a post-exilic writing; Proverbs has many groups of sayings welded together; Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and Daniel illustrate characteristic phases in the compilatory process. The same is true of the historical books. The Pentateuch is very generally regarded as made up of four sources. We must be ready to allow these facts. It will be found that this element of compilation, so strange and startling, may unexpectedly aid us in our understanding and enjoyment of the books of Scripture. (i) It enables us to reconcile what seem to be confusions of facts, statements and forms of thought and language belonging to different ages, which stand together in the same book. (2) We are carried back to re-* The full title of the paper is The Study of the Old Testament, with Special Reference to the Element of Compilation in the Structure of the Books, by Rev. Professor Herbert E. Ryle, in the Expositor, May, I890, pp. 321-339. 4 I890] Synopses of Important Articles. 49 Little Compton, R. I. The tablet contains 32 lines, more or less defaced. At its head is the name and title of a hitherto unknown king. " Chit-het," who, in the fourteenth year of his reign, speaks of " the very great misfortune of having no overflow of the Nile for seven years." Certain peculiarities in the style of writing and in the grouping of hieroglyphics assign this stone to the fourth century B. C. Evidently somebody had taken an old story of a seven years' famine and clothed it in modern dress for the purpose of exciting respect for some fourth century divinity. In the reign of this ancient king the seven years of famine had closed with the fourteenth year of his reign. The seven '" fat years" had preceded them. The throne name of this king, different from his family name, has been found once, on an inscription over a door in the great pyramid of Sakkara, from which it appears that the king belonged to the first Egyptian dynasty, at least I,500 years before the time of Joseph. The old story, with the name of the old king, was revamped in the XXII dynasty as a pious fraud by the priests. Dr. Brugsch believes in the real historical character of this newly-found stone, and calls Chit-het " the longest forgotten king of any epoch ;" and he says that the stone will be prized through all time as an important piece of evidence for the actual occurrence of a seven years' famine in the time of Joseph. Compilation in the Old Testament.*-Few scholars would dispute the statement that recent investigation into structure, composition and style, has revealed the compilatory character of a large proportion of the books of the Old Testament. But few have realized its significance. It must ultimately influence the attitude of modern Christian teaching towards many problems that centre around Holy Scripture. The critical study of such facts as these provokes opposition, and students should have patient sympathy with such opposition, which rises out of reverence for the Bible and fear lest its authority and devotional power may be weakened in the popular mind. Other manifest objections to such study arise, such as want of historical and literary sympathy with the ancient Semitic mind, the unwillingness to let one's vision be modified, the fact that biblical criticism will never escape misunderstanding on the part of those who do not wish to welcome it. If we approach the literary analysis of the Old Testament with a recognition of the moral and religious significance of it as a whole, we will not be harmed but delighted with the new light gained. The books will be found to be largely compilations from the literary remains of many epochs, not written wholes, as ordinarily supposed, referrible to some distinguished name. This is true of the Psalter, which contains poetry from David to the Maccabees; Ecclesiastes is not Solomonic; Job, a post-exilic writing; Proverbs has many groups of sayings welded together; Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and Daniel illustrate characteristic phases in the compilatory process. The same is true of the historical books. The Pentateuch is very generally regarded as made up of four sources. We must be ready to allow these facts. It will be found that this element of compilation, so strange and startling, may unexpectedly aid us in our understanding and enjoyment of the books of Scripture. (i) It enables us to reconcile what seem to be confusions of facts, statements and forms of thought and language belonging to different ages, which stand together in the same book. (2) We are carried back to re-* The full title of the paper is The Little Compton, R. I. The tablet contains 32 lines, more or less defaced. At its head is the name and title of a hitherto unknown king. " Chit-het," who, in the fourteenth year of his reign, speaks of " the very great misfortune of having no overflow of the Nile for seven years." Certain peculiarities in the style of writing and in the grouping of hieroglyphics assign this stone to the fourth century B. C. Evidently somebody had taken an old story of a seven years' famine and clothed it in modern dress for the purpose of exciting respect for some fourth century divinity. In the reign of this ancient king the seven years of famine had closed with the fourteenth year of his reign. The seven '" fat years" had preceded them. The throne name of this king, different from his family name, has been found once, on an inscription over a door in the great pyramid of Sakkara, from which it appears that the king belonged to the first Egyptian dynasty, at least I,500 years before the time of Joseph. The old story, with the name of the old king, was revamped in the XXII dynasty as a pious fraud by the priests. Dr. Brugsch believes in the real historical character of this newly-found stone, and calls Chit-het " the longest forgotten king of any epoch ;" and he says that the stone will be prized through all time as an important piece of evidence for the actual occurrence of a seven years' famine in the time of Joseph. Compilation in the Old Testament.*-Few scholars would dispute the statement that recent investigation into structure, composition and style, has revealed the compilatory character of a large proportion of the books of the Old Testament. But few have realized its significance. It must ultimately influence the attitude of modern Christian teaching towards many problems that centre around Holy Scripture. The critical study of such facts as these provokes opposition, and students should have patient sympathy with such opposition, which rises out of reverence for the Bible and fear lest its authority and devotional power may be weakened in the popular mind. Other manifest objections to such study arise, such as want of historical and literary sympathy with the ancient Semitic mind, the unwillingness to let one's vision be modified, the fact that biblical criticism will never escape misunderstanding on the part of those who do not wish to welcome it. If we approach the literary analysis of the Old Testament with a recognition of the moral and religious significance of it as a whole, we will not be harmed but delighted with the new light gained. The books will be found to be largely compilations from the literary remains of many epochs, not written wholes, as ordinarily supposed, referrible to some distinguished name. This is true of the Psalter, which contains poetry from David to the Maccabees; Ecclesiastes is not Solomonic; Job, a post-exilic writing; Proverbs has many groups of sayings welded together; Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and Daniel illustrate characteristic phases in the compilatory process. The same is true of the historical books. The Pentateuch is very generally regarded as made up of four sources. We must be ready to allow these facts. It will be found that this element of compilation, so strange and startling, may unexpectedly aid us in our understanding and enjoyment of the books of Scripture. (i) It enables us to reconcile what seem to be confusions of facts, statements and forms of thought and language belonging to different ages, which stand together in the same book. (2) We are carried back to re-* The full title of the paper is The Study of the Old Testament, with Special Reference to the Element of Compilation in the Structure of the Books, by Rev. Professor Herbert E. Ryle, in the Expositor, May, I890, pp. 321-339. 4 I890] Synopses of Important Articles. 49 Little Compton, R. I. The tablet contains 32 lines, more or less defaced. At its head is the name and title of a hitherto unknown king. " Chit-het," who, in the fourteenth year of his reign, speaks of " the very great misfortune of having no overflow of the Nile for seven years." Certain peculiarities in the style of writing and in the grouping of hieroglyphics assign this stone to the fourth century B. C. Evidently somebody had taken an old story of a seven years' famine and clothed it in modern dress for the purpose of exciting respect for some fourth century divinity. In the reign of this ancient king the seven years of famine had closed with the fourteenth year of his reign. The seven '" fat years" had preceded them. The throne name of this king, different from his family name, has been found once, on an inscription over a door in the great pyramid of Sakkara, from which it appears that the king belonged to the first Egyptian dynasty, at least I,500 years before the time of Joseph. The old story, with the name of the old king, was revamped in the XXII dynasty as a pious fraud by the priests. Dr. Brugsch believes in the real historical character of this newly-found stone, and calls Chit-het " the longest forgotten king of any epoch ;" and he says that the stone will be prized through all time as an important piece of evidence for the actual occurrence of a seven years' famine in the time of Joseph. Compilation in the Old Testament.*-Few scholars would dispute the statement that recent investigation into structure, composition and style, has revealed the compilatory character of a large proportion of the books of the Old Testament. But few have realized its significance. It must ultimately influence the attitude of modern Christian teaching towards many problems that centre around Holy Scripture. The critical study of such facts as these provokes opposition, and students should have patient sympathy with such opposition, which rises out of reverence for the Bible and fear lest its authority and devotional power may be weakened in the popular mind. Other manifest objections to such study arise, such as want of historical and literary sympathy with the ancient Semitic mind, the unwillingness to let one's vision be modified, the fact that biblical criticism will never escape misunderstanding on the part of those who do not wish to welcome it. If we approach the literary analysis of the Old Testament with a recognition of the moral and religious significance of it as a whole, we will not be harmed but delighted with the new light gained. The books will be found to be largely compilations from the literary remains of many epochs, not written wholes, as ordinarily supposed, referrible to some distinguished name. This is true of the Psalter, which contains poetry from David to the Maccabees; Ecclesiastes is not Solomonic; Job, a post-exilic writing; Proverbs has many groups of sayings welded together; Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and Daniel illustrate characteristic phases in the compilatory process. The same is true of the historical books. The Pentateuch is very generally regarded as made up of four sources. We must be ready to allow these facts. It will be found that this element of compilation, so strange and startling, may unexpectedly aid us in our understanding and enjoyment of the books of Scripture. (i) It enables us to reconcile what seem to be confusions of facts, statements and forms of thought and language belonging to different ages, which stand together in the same book. (2) We are carried back to re-* The full title of the paper is The