History of Israel
In 1878 Julius Wellhausen published "Geschichte Israels, Bd 1" ("History of Israel, Vol 1"); the second edition he printed as "Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels" ("Prolegomena to the History of Israel"), in 1883, and the work is better known under that name. (The second volume, a synthetic history titled "Israelitische und jüdische Geschichte" ["Israelite and Jewish History"], did not appear until 1894 and remains untranslated.) Crucially, this historical portrait was based upon two earlier works of his technical analysis: "Die Composition des Hexateuchs" ("The Composition of the Hexateuch") of 1876/77 and sections on the "historical books" (Judges–Kings) in his 1878 edition of Friedrich Bleek's "Einleitung in das Alte Testament" ("Introduction to the Old Testament").