The Maccabean dating of Old Testament material has a respectable ancestry, since it may be traced at least as far as Theodore of Mopsuestia 1), and really finds its first beginnings in 1 Macc. vii 16 f., in the quotation of Ps. lxxix 2-3 2). Attempts at refuting once and for all the tendency to discover Maccabean material in the Old Testament-apart of course from the book of Daniel-have been unavailing 3). It is like a many-headed hydra which neither the pan-Ras Shamra school, nor even the pan-Dead Sea Scroll school can effectively scotch4), though we are unlikely to see a revival of the extreme theories of such scholars as HITZIG (on the Psalms) 5)