Bishop Colenso's Objections: To the Historical Character of the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua (Contained in Part 1.) Critically Examined (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Bishop Colenso's Objections: To the Historical Character of the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua (Contained in Part 1.) Critically Examined

The author has further to remark, that the translation of the texts upon which he comments is his own, which appeared some years age, under the title of a Jewish School and Family Bible, and was executed under the supervision of the Rev. The Chief Rabbi.

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Excerpt from Bishop Colenso's Objections: To the Historical Character of the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua (Contained in Part 1.) Critically Examined

The following examination of Bishop Colenso's objections to the historical character of the Pentateuch, as contained in Part I, originally appeared in a series of articles in the Jewish Chronicle. The first was published on November 28,1862, and the last on February 27, 1863. They were intended to quiet the minds of such of the author's co-religionists as had been unsettled by the Bishop's arguments - the book having created as much sensation in the Jewish community as among other denominations. But, so general was the approbation with which these replies were received among his brethren in faith, and so warm the wish for their publication in a separate volume, that, in compliance with this call, he re-cast them, and now presents them to the public as an independent work. This origin of the publication will account for the rare appeal of the author to any other authority in support of his arguments, beyond that of the text of the Bible itself. Appeals to authorities not accessible to the mass of his co-religionists would not have strengthened the impressions which he wished to produce. He had, moreover, another reason for not resorting to ancient translations and commentaries in the task undertaken by him. The author believes, that while such versions of the Bible as the Septuagint or Targumim were produced at periods when the vital principle animating a living language and rendering, by a natural instinct, all artificial help unnecessary, was quite extinct, their execution was yet not near enough the time when sound philology and profound criticism, to some extent, supplied the place of the missing resource referred to.

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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.