The Permanent Value of the Book of Genesis as an Integral Part of the Christian Revelation; Being the Paddock Lectures for 1894 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1894 Excerpt: ... general terms, creates the impression in the reader's mind that critics generally are included in the same condemnation. In view of the wide-spread distress which has been caused to thousands of devout souls by the well known views of Wellhausen in this regard, it might perhaps have been well if Professor Driver, in thus separating himself from these extreme critics, had himself particularised names, and had expressed a well-deserved condemnation of the Wellhausen theory as to the unhistorical character of even the setting of the Patriarchal history. We may take it, therefore, that the position of Wellhausen and Kuenen as to that history can no longer be maintained, and may be assigned to the limbo of so many other forgotten theories. The confession of Hommel, one of Wellhausen's own followers, is practically conclusive as a full surrender of the ' free creation" hypothesis. He says distinctly, "The Exodus of Abraham from Babylonia, the battle of the Canaanites with the Babylono-Elamite league in the valley of Siddim, and the journey of Abraham to Egypt are historic facts." Cited in Scrader's Cuneiform Inscriptions of the Old Testament, Introductory Preface to English ed., p. xxi. SUBORDINATE QUESTIONS. 19? But Professor Driver, whilst conceding the historical colouring of the Pentateuch complains that it is deficient in local details. The distinction is perhaps somewhat subtle, but it is obviously made in the interests of his own critical position, viz., that the documents J and E were reduced to writing at a late period in the days of the monarchy, and hence although they rest upon a sound historical basis the writers had no information beyond that contained in their source. They were thus unable to add the little details which flow so naturally from th...
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