WARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FRESHMAN LIBRARY McKINLOCK MALL ALGERT BUSHNELL MART NOV 16 1926 HARVARD COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS. All rights reserved. Press of J. J. Little & Co. Astor Place, New York Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin. Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France. Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University. Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Michigan. Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris. Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin. Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University. Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg. Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society. Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz Möllendorff, University of Berlin. Dr. G. W. Botsford, Columbia University. Prof. Julius Wellhausen, University of Göttingen. Prof. R. W. Rogers, Drew Theological Seminary. Baron Bernardo di San Severino Quaranta, London. Dr. S. Rappoport, School of Oriental Languages, Paris. Prof. Hermann Diels, University of Berlin. Prof. C. W. C. Oman, Oxford University. Prof. E. C. Fleming, University of West Virginia. CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. ISRAEL AS A WORLD INFLUENCE. By Bernhard Stade. 1 A CRITICAL SURVEY OF THE SCOPE AND SOURCES OF ISRAELITIC HISTORY TO THE HEBREW HISTORY IN OUTLINE (1180 B.C.-70 A.D.) 30 The age of the patriarchs, 57. Early movements of the Israelites, 57. The Egyp- tian sojourn, 58. Biblical account of Moses and the Exodus, 61. Israel's early Samuel and Saul, 78. The rise of David, 79. David in revolt against Saul, 80. The death of Saul and the struggle for the succession, 83. David secures the crown, David's greatness in time of peace, 89. Further wars break out, 91. David and The prophecy of the return, 122. The condition of the exiles, 125. The coming of Cyrus, 126. The return to Jerusalem, 127. The walls upraised again, 130. Under Persian rule, 133. Persian influences on Jewish religion, 134. Alexander the Great, 134. Under the Seleucids, 135. The Syrian dominion; Antiochus the Great, 138. Antiochus Epiphanes, 139. Jason and Antiochus torment the people, |