"Speaking after mature deliberation, we pronounce Professor Robertson Smith's book on Biblical Science one of the most important works that has appeared in our time. It justifies, in a convincing and conclusive manner, what we have from first to last maintained regarding him—namely, that he was engaged in an enterprise auspicious to the Christian Church; that he was not assailing the faith, but fortifying it. He has not abandoned one jot or one tittle of his principles, but he now for the first time states them comprehensively, and points out their natural and logical applications."—The Christian World (London).
"In his studies the author has made a careful use of the studies of the great critics of England and Germany. But his work is marked by a spirit of intrepid independence and an individuality which refuses to surrender at discretion to anybody. He refuses to be lifted from his feet on the solid rock of Christian faith, by any passing wave of skepticism. As an introduction to the Old Testament for the use of teachers, and a vigorous, scholarly statement of the principles and results of conservative Biblical criticism, as related to the Old Testament, these lectures will be found specially serviceable and interesting. And they are certainly remarkable as an indication of a liberal movement in the Scottish Church."—New York Evening Express.
"Heresy is a difficult charge to prove nowadays, and when proved to the satisfaction of the religious court seems to advance a man's reputation rather than injure it. Here is Professor Robertson Smith, who was found too heretical to be allowed to address the students at Aberdeen, Scotland, on the Hebrew language and literature, who is received in the larger world with something of the prestige of a martyr. Influential laymen, both in Edinburgh and Glasgow, have requested him to deliver in both cities a course of lectures on the present state of Biblical criticism. These lectures have now been delivered, and are published not only in England, but in this country also."—New York Times.
"How far Professor Smith's conclusions may coincide with those of our own best Biblical scholars we shall not undertake to say, but his work is so able and accurate, so scholarly and devout, that it will be read with interest by American clergymen and students, and will stimulate all who read it to make further researches in the same field."—The Christian-at-Work.
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