Note 29 — Chapter IV · RELATIVE FREETHOUGHT IN ISRAEL
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6. The same school of criticism, while adhering to the traditional dating of Amos and Hosea, has surrendered the claim for the Psalms, placing most of these in the same age with the books of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Ecclesiasticus.29 Now, the sentiment of opposition to burnt-offerings is found in some of the Psalms in language identical with that of the supposed early prophets.30 Instead of taking the former for late echoes of the latter, we may reasonably suspect that they belong to the same culture-stage.