in its final form to the period of the exile. His analysis embraced the entire Pentateuch, unlike those of his predecessors who had for the most part restricted themselves to Genesis. The rationalistic tendencies of Geddes found another adherent in the person of W. M. L. De Wette, who supported to some extent the fragmentary theory of Pentateuchal origins in his Beiträge zur Einleitung in das Alte Testament, published in 1807. He parted company with previous critics in affirming that the earliest