III. PREHISTORIC TRADITIONS REWRITTEN

IV. THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT

V. THE DEUTERONOMIC CODE

VI. THE CANON LAW.

VII. HEBREW FICTION

VIII. SOME HEBREW STORIES RETOLD

IX. A DRAMA OF LOVE.

X. A SPIRITUAL TRAGEDY.

XI. A SCHOOL OF ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY. I.

XII. A SCHOOL OF ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY. II.

XIII. A COLLECTION OF LYRICS

XIV. PREACHERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

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THE WRITINGS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE ORDER OF THEIR COMPOSITION

WITH AUTHORS AND APPROXIMATE DATES

In case a book is ascribed to a period rather than a year, the date of the terminus ad quem determines its position in this table. In the main Driver's Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament has been followed. By reference to the chronological table on pages xi.-xiii. the reader may see under what circumstances the various writings were composed.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

THE Chronology of the Old Testament is to a certain extent hypothetical; prior to the Exodus it is wholly so. In preparing this table, use has been made of The Religion of Israel, by Karl Budde, and the Commentaries on Isaiah and on The Twelve Prophets, by George Adam Smith. The latter has been accepted and followed without question in the period of which he treats, that is, from the disruption of the kingdom, B. C. 940.