Article March 8, 1900 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from George H. Schodde

In an interesting article on "Problems of the Psalms," published in the Homiletic Review, Prof. George H. Schodde, Ph.D., says:—

In the very forefront of the Biblical discussions of the day stands the Psalm-problem. Christians are so thoroughly imbued with the traditional conviction that the bulk of the Psalms are from the pen of David, and the others, as a whole, from the age of the sweet singer of Israel, that it makes almost a painful impression to hear that the general trend and tendency is now to deny to David the authorship of almost every psalm, and to claim the exile and the period immediately following the exile as the age in which these songs were composed. In fact, the favorite term for this collection, among the more critically inclined investigators, is, The Hymn-Book of the Second Congregation.

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