Note 95 — Chapter IV · Traces of Greek Influence in the Old Testament and in the Apocrypha

To give but two examples: Robertson Smith (The Old Testament in the Jewish Church, p. 212), after having examined the subject carefully, says: “We are thus led by a concurrence of arguments to assign the collection of Psalms xc.-cl. and the completion of the whole Psalter to the early years of the Maccabee sovereignty.” Briggs (The Book of Psalms, I, pp. xc., xci.) assigns a large number of the Psalms to the Greek period.