The Present State of Old Testament Studies (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Barton, George Aaron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333404824 ISBN 13 : 9781333404826

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Present State of Old Testament Studies

In 1930 Professor Charles C. Torrey published his book, pseudo-ezekiel and the Original Prophecy.58 Tor rey's theory is in brief this. A man, probably of priestly rank, living in Jerusalem in the third century B. C. On the basis Of 2 Kgs. Put into the mouth of a prophet Of the time of Manasseh (he thinks that the thirtieth year in Eze. Can only be the 3oth year of Manasseh) passionate warnings, and then reminded his readers how, when the warnings were disregarded, dire punishment followed. Some thirty years later an editor, in the interest of what Torrey believes was then a new theory, viz that there was a Babylonian captivity and a return, inserted in Eze. 3 references to the captivity and made other editorial additions which SO successfully transferred all the prophecies to Babylon that for two thousand years no one perceived the hoax. The theory is set forth with all of Torrey's ingenuity (and he is very ingenious) and persuasiveness. It is, however, too ingenious. As one reads he is led to doubt that, were the theory true, even Torrey could have detected it!

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The Haverford Symposium accepted, nevertheless the cleavage between fundamentalist and Clitic still exists, although among real scholars it has grown narrower. One evidence of the bridging of the gap is that of late scholars who are critics in spite of themselves have made extensive use of archaeology in the effort to establish the historicity of A braham or to vindicate Archbishop Usher sdate of the Exodus. On the whole, however, scholars have worked in harmony and the last twenty years have witnessed a steadily increased understanding of almost every phase of Old Testament study. This will become clearer, if we examine the progress made in the various branches of Old Testament study separately. ,T he work of Graf, Kuenen, and Wellhausen had laid the foundations of Pentateuchal analysis on firm foundations more than fifty years ago and had wrought out with approximate certainty the division of the materials between the different documents. In spite of the natural desire of deeply religious scholars to reestablish belief in the tradition that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, the facts on which the documentary hypothesis rests are so incontrovertible that they carry conviction to the mind of all candid persons who really examine them. The investigations of the last twenty years have accordingly established more firmly belief in the once separate existence of the great documents, J, E, D, and P. The belief of the Graf Wellhausen school that within these documents there are different strata justifying the use of the symbols Jp, E, E-, DD ,P P, Phas been generally accepted by those who have participated in Pentateuchal researches during the past twenty years. Some differences of opinion as to the dates of these documents have developed.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333404824
• ISBN 13: 9781333404826
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 40
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