Excerpt from The Religion of Israel Under the Kingdom: Kerr Lectures, Delivered in the United Free Church College, Glasgow, During Session 1911-12
A course of lectures on so large a subject as the Religion of Israel under the Kingdom must necessarily omit, and the only problem is not to omit anything essential to the general picture. What, therefore, one elects to omit must be determined by the view taken of the course of development of Hebrew thought during the period under review. I have sought to point out how, under the kingdom, prophecy with its wider ideals and the nation with its narrower outlook at first support each other, but finally separate, and how their interaction makes each more conscious of its peculiar task. The omissions are determined by the line of treatment.
One omission a glance over the headings of the chapters will at once show. There is no separate treatment of Micah and Zephaniah, though these two prophets did their work during the period of the kingdom. Because Micah supplies little that is distinctive to the development which is the subject of the lectures, I have thought it unnecessary to overload the book with a special study of his prophecy, which would only repeat ideas that are more powerfully presented elsewhere. It is true that thereby the theory of the development of Israel's religious thought loses the confirmation of the support of an additional witness.
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