The Critical Review of Theological and Philosophical Literature, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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He dedicates his book to Harnack as the man from whom he has learnt most; and probably it is from him he has learned the secure historic insight which makes him notable among recent writers of the Old Testament. He feels how much the hypothesis of historic invention by late writers has been overworked Of late, and boldly restores the great mass Of the stories of Genesis-to the earliest times. Many of them he regards as pre-israelite; almost none Of them should, he thinks, be brought down in any essential feature below the time of David; and as a natural and necessary Consequence, he finds that much of the higher religious feeling, which it is now the fashion to regard as due to the teaching Of the writing prophets, was existent in very early if not primitive times. But he continually reminds himself and his readers how little we really know Of the literature and life Of early Israel, and in his preface he exhorts them not to overlook the continual recurrence of the words probably, may and can, and to remember that his disentanglement Of the various documents is in great part hypothetical, and is not to be taken as final.

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