Excerpt from The Higher Criticism: Four Papers Asserted that even the most generally accepted con clusions of the Higher Criticism are contradicted by archaeology: but our readers must rest assured that this is not the case: such statements rest uniformly upon some misapprehension either of the grounds upon which critics rest their conclusions, or of the bearing of the facts of archaeology upon them.* It need only be added, lastly, that in what has been said, both in this Preface and in the papers which follow, -except in ...
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Excerpt from The Higher Criticism: Four Papers Asserted that even the most generally accepted con clusions of the Higher Criticism are contradicted by archaeology: but our readers must rest assured that this is not the case: such statements rest uniformly upon some misapprehension either of the grounds upon which critics rest their conclusions, or of the bearing of the facts of archaeology upon them.* It need only be added, lastly, that in what has been said, both in this Preface and in the papers which follow, -except in one or two places where the contrary will be self-evident, - the Old Testament alone has been held in view. With regard to the New Testament, it may be sufficient to observe that, as has been pointed out below (p. The very different conditions under which the writings of the New Testament were produced, and especially the relatively short interval of time separating them from the period of our Lord's life upon earth, make it to our minds impossible that the application to it of the methods of the Higher Criticism (in the legitimate sense of the expression), though it may alter our view of the origin and strue ture of some of the documents concerned, should ever affect appreciably the historical evidence for all the leading facts of our Lord's life, or for the vital truths of Christianity. S. R. D. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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