The Elements Of The Higher Criticism

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Excerpt from The Elements of the Higher Criticism It would appear to be high time for an e ort to clear this confusion by propounding the question, What is the Higher Criticism P with a view to finding a detailed and precise answer. We shall not dare to hope that our answer should be accepted as satisfactory by everybody. But whether universally accepted as satisfactory or not, it cannot but serve at least two classes of readers. First, in the world Of students who are about to approach the questions Of criticism as a part of their preparation for teaching and preaching the Bible, an aid to clear notions of what criticism is cannot fail to be of some use. It is true the world of students has its competent guides into this field but the competent teacher knows better than any one else the value Of a summary, in systematic form, Of such a subject in the hands Of his pupils. It saves him much valuable time for ad vanced work in the praxis Of the Higher Criticism, and furnishes him with an outline and system for explanations which otherwise might appear, and be, desultory and scattered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

In the author's words this historic volume was written to show, as briefly and compactly as possible, that the faith of all past ages in respect to the Pentateuch has not been mistaken. The author, said colleague John D. Davis shortly after Green's death, did more than any one man of hi s time to rally and steady and inspirit the church under the shock of a sudden and mighty assault on the trustworthiness of Scripture. Green shows that the Pentateuch is the basis or foundation of the entire Old Testament; that it has one theme, which is treated with orderly arrangement and upon a carefully considered plan suggestive of a single author; that its author was Moses; that the various forms of opposition to Mosaic authorship are in error; and that the hypotheses concerning the composite nature of the Pentateuch are baseless. He concludes by defending the genuineness of the Pentateuch's laws against the development hypothesis and by showing this hypothesis to be radically unbiblical.