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CONTENTS.
Chapter
page
1 Introduction.
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2 Chronology of the books which form the Hebrew canon,
the Old Testament
4
3 That the books of the Old Testament are not 39 in num-
ber but 17 only
9
4 That the five books of Moses, with the books of Joshua,
Judges, Ruth, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, and
II Kings, are closely connected, and form a continuous
narrative.
5 That the Old Testament is compiled from more ancient
works
1 Interruptions in the narrative
2 Repetitions
3 Earlier writings are quoted by the authors of the old
6 Chronological summary of Jewish history
7 Of the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament
8 Value of contemporary history
9 Of the reputed authors of the several books in the Old
10 The claims of Moses to the authorship of the Pentateuch
investigated. 1. From Tradition or Universal
Consent.
11 Examination of the internal evidence which the Pentateuch
is said to furnish for the belief that it was written, in
its present form, by Moses.
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12 The case of the Samaritan Pentateuch examined
13 That Moses is not the author of the Pentateuch, proved—
I. from internal evidence
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The two tables of stone seem to have supplied the place
Pentateuch
of a BOOK of the law
Manner in which Moses is mentioned in the Pentateuch
3 A book more ancient than the Pentateuch quoted by the
writer of the Pentateuch
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5 Anachronism that Moses should record his own death.
Anachronism in names, especially those of places, men-
tioned in the Pentateuch
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7 Allusion to events that are known to have happened after
8 The Pentateuch betrays a more advanced state of knowledge
than prevailed in the time of Moses
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9 Variation in the name given to the priest of Midian,
father-in-law of Moses, and to Joshua.
10 Argument derived from the use of the expression "unto
11 Allusion to the want of a regular government.
14 Book of Joshua examined-Anachronisms and other inter-
nal evidence shewing that it was written in a later age
15 Book of Judges similarly examined
16 The book of Ruth examined.
17 First book of Samuel examined
18 Second book of Samuel examined
19 The two books of Kings examined
20 Errors, discrepancies, anachronisms &c. in the historical
books generally, shewing that they are not contempo-
rary records
1. Two versions of the Ten Commandments
2 Inconsistencies concerning Abraham and Sarah.
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3 Different accounts of the length of time which the Israel-
ites sojourned in Egypt
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4 Discrepancies in the history of David and Saul
5 Inaccuracies concerning Jacob's children
6 Excessive accounts of the population of the Holy Land.
7 Error in the number of Solomon's officers
8 Error in the number of talents brought from Ophir
9 Concerning the situation of Tarshish..
10 The Law of Moses not observed by the Israelites
11 Inconsistency between Samuel's picture of a king, and
that ascribed to Moses in Deut. xvii
21 References to facts of which no records survive.
22 Grammatical subtleties are a proof of a later age
23 That the Israelites spoke Egyptian when they came out of
Egypt, and only acquired the Hebrew or Canaanitish
language by a long residence in Canaan
NOTE. Extract from Dr Bosworth's work on the Origin of
the English, Germanic and Scandinavian languages
24 That the Chaldee language was the result of the Roman
conquest of Judæa, and not of the Babylonish cap-
tivity-Proved, T. from the Old Testament.
1 Ezra and others after the captivity still wrote in Hebrew
and not in Chaldee
2 The Targums or Chaldee paraphrases are later than the
Christian era, because not wanted until then
3 Vowel-points and accents modern-the want of them not
felt until after the time of Christ—i. e. the.
Hebrew was still a living language at the begin-
ing of the Christian era
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25 That the Jewish nation spoke Hebrew as late as the time
of Christ-proved, 2ndly. from the New Testament.
1 The Hebrew is expressly mentioned in the New Testament
as being still the language of the people
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2 Hebrew words are found in the New Testament
3 Proper names of persons and places are of the same charac-
ter as those which occur in the Old Testament
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4 Christ himself reads from the book of the Old Testament
26 Successive changes in the religion of the Hebrews, result-
ing from their contact with foreign nations.
27 That the books of the Old Testament are later than the
Babylonish Captivity
1. Close connexion of the narrative from Genesis to the second
book of Kings
2. Silence concerning the mode in which the book of the Law
was preserved during the captivity
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3 Allusion in Genesis to the Babylonish mode of building
4 The expressions ON THIS SIDE Jordan, BEYOND JORDAN
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examined
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5 The Captivity and Assyria are actually mentioned in the
early parts of the Old Testament
28 On the art of writing-Its gradual developement through
5 Alphabetic writing, as used in Grece, and by other
ancient and modern nations
NOTE. Extract from Dr Wall's Inquiry into the origin of
alphabetic writing
29 Alphabetic Writing unknown to the early Egyptians, and
consequently to Moses
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1 Positive testimony of ancient authors to a peculiar character
of writing among the Egyptians
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2 Absence of all mention of phonetic or alphabetic legends in
the writings of the ancients
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