sentences:  In a letter of 26 February 1888 to Peter Gast, Nietzsche mentions his reading of the posthumous works of Charles Baudelaire (published in 1887).He also read Tolstoy's "My Religion" (Paris, 1885), the Jewish historian Julius Wellhausen on Arab antiquities and his "Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels" (Berlin, 1882), the first volume of the "Journal" of the Goncourt brothers, thoughts of Benjamin Constant on German theater, Ernest Renan's "Life of Jesus" — whom he opposed —, and Dostoevsky's "The Possessed" (Paris, 1886 — read in 1887).Julius Wellhausen became famous for his critical investigations into Old Testament history and into the composition of the "Hexateuch", the uncompromising scientific attitude he adopted in testing its problems bringing him into antagonism with the older school of biblical interpreters.