I fear that many of them will read the posthumous Old Testament Prophecy with a sense of disappointment. They will protest that this is not the Old Testament Prophecy to which they listened. The difference is not merely the absence of the living voice ... the course itself is altered." In fact Paterson had been a student of Davidson in 1874, while Strachan had been a student in 1884. In the time of the Robertson Smith case, Davidson dropped material on Pentateuchal criticism and replaced it with Old Testament Prophecy. George Adam Smith stated "Yet, after the controversy on Robertson Smith's articles broke out, Davidson dropped his lectures on the Pentateuch—they were not given to his students in the later seventies—and did not resume till nine years later." The reason that Davidson himself gave for concentrating on the eighth-century prophets was that with these writings, one was on historical ground. References External links 1831 births 1902 deaths People from Ellon, Aberdeenshire Scottish Christians Christian Hebraists Scottish scholars and academics Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Academics of the University of Edinburgh Grammarians of Hebrew