Sources of History in the Pentateuch

Excerpt from Sources of History in the Pentateuch: Six Lectures Delivered in Princeton Theological Seminary, on the Stone Foundation, March, 1882 The five books of Moses, like the Revelation of which they form the grand propylćum, have in our day been chiefly put upon the defensive. As many a writer, indebted to the Christian system for his ethics, has received the gift and disparaged the source, so have a large class of investigators gained invaluable and indispensable aid from the Pentateuch, and then endeavored to use its own frank utterances to invalidate its authority. And so the portico has been viewed rather as a beleageured fortress. 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.