"Professor Robertson Smith's book is exactly what was wanted at once to inform and to stimulate. Written by one of the first Semitic scholars of our time, it is completely abreast of the most recent investigations, and pervaded by a thoroughly scholar-like spirit. His easy mastery of the subject and his sense of which are the really difficult points and which the settled ones are apparent on every page. What is more surprising is the skill wherewith these resources are used. Although scientific in the sense of being thorough, exact, and business-like, the book is also popular--that is to say, it is perfectly intelligible to every person of fair general education who has read the Bible. For clearness of statement, for cogency of argument, for breadth of view, for impartiality of tone, for the judgment with which details are subordinated to the most interesting and instructive principles and facts, it is a model of how a great and difficult subject should be presented to the world."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ "Speaking after mature deliberation, we pronounce Professor Robertson Smith's book on Biblical Science one of the most important works that has appeared in our time. It justifies, in a convincing and conclusive manner, what we have from first to last maintained regarding him--namely, that he was engaged in an enterprise auspicious to the Christian Church; that he was not assailing the faith, but fortifying it. He has not abandoned one jot or one tittle of his principles, but he now for the first time states them comprehensively, and points out their natural and logical applications."--_The Christian World_ (London). "In his studies the author has made a careful use of the studies of the great critics of England and Germany. But his work is marked by a spirit of intrepid independence and an individuality which refuses to surrender at discretion to anybody. He refuses to be lifted from his feet on the solid rock of Christian faith, by any passing wave of skepticism. As an introduction to the Old Testament for the use of teachers, and a vigorous, scholarly statement of the principles and results of conservative Biblical criticism, as related to the Old Testament, these lectures will be found specially serviceable and interesting. And they are certainly remarkable as an indication of a liberal movement in the Scottish Church."--_New York Evening Express._