Visually Inspected by Owner: Paperback as pictured, no marks in text, binding solid. Previous owners name, 1978 edition. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: "THE Higher Criticism has been of late so associated with extravagant theorizing, and with insidious attacks upon the genuineness and credibility of the books of the Bible that the very term has become an offence to serious minds. It has come to be considered one of the most dangerous forms of infidelity, and in its very nature hostile to revealed truth. And it must be confessed that in the hands of those who are unfriendly to supernatural religion it has proved a potent weapon in the interest of unbelief. Nor has the use made of it by those who, while claiming to be evangelical critics, accept and defend the revolutionary conclusions of the antisupernaturalists, tended to remove the discredit into which it has fallen.

This is not the fault of the Higher Criticism in its genuine sense, however, but of its perversion. Properly speaking it is an inquiry into the origin and character of the writings to which it is applied. It seeks to ascertain by all available means the authors by whom, the time at which, the circumstances under which, and the design with which they were produced. Such investigations, rightly conducted, must prove a most important aid to the understanding and just appreciation of the writings in question.

The books of the Bible have nothing to fear from such investigations, however searching and thorough, and however fearlessly pursued. They can only result in establishing more firmly the truth of the claims, which the Bible makes for itself, in every particular. The Bible stands upon a rock from which it can never be dislodged."

This classic work is organized as follows:

Preface

I. The Old Testament and Its Structure

II. The Plan and Contents of the Pentateuch
Scheme of the Pentateuch

III. Moses the Author of the Pentateuch
The Earliest Objections

IV. The Unity of the Pentateuch
Document Hypothesis
Fragment Hypothesis
Supplement Hypothesis
Crystallization Hypothesis
Modified Document Hypothesis
The Grounds of Literary Partition Considered
The Prodigal Son, Luke xv. 11-32
The Good Samaritan, Luke x. 29-37

V. Genuineness of the Laws
Development Hypothesis
Scriptural Statements
No Discrepancy
Alleged Violations of the Law
Ignorance of the Law

VI. The Bearing of the Divisive Criticism on the Credibility of the Pentateuch and on Supernatural Religion
Credibility Undermined
Unfriendly to Revealed Religion
Deism, Rationalism, Divisive Criticism