Aspects of the Old Testament

Aspects of the Old Testament, the Bampton lectures for 1897, were presented as eight talks before the University of Oxford. In these lectures, Ottley’s aim was to show that it is possible to regard as conclusive and to welcome many of the verdicts of the ＂higher criticism of the Old Testament, without necessarily accepting what is merely conjectural and arbitrary.

Robert Lawrence Ottley (1856-1933) was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and at Pembroke College, Oxford. He was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, principal of Pusey House, and after 1903 canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford. Among his writings are ’The Hebrew Prophets’ and ’The Religion of Israel’.