Cheyne, English cleric and biblical critic, was the author of many books of biblical criticism. Founders of Old Testament Criticism contains a series of pictures of eminent Old Testament critics from the beginning of the critical movement to the present day, with an attempt in each case to estimate the services of the subject of the picture. Some of those profiles include: Warburton, Lowth, Geddes, Eichhorn, Ilgen, Ewald, Hitzig, Bleek, Riehm, Lagarde, Colenso, Briggs, Sayce, Moore and others.