Excerpt from The Age and Authorship of the Pentateuch Considered, Vol. 2: In Further Reply to Bishop Colenso Samuel, as the Bishop pretends, he may well find it difficult to imagine what possible occupation there could have been; for the f Schools of the Prophets, ' which were at that time beginning to make a name in Israel. From them, indeed, the Bishop ingeniously argues that the first writings of Holy Scripture emanated. But if they neither wrote Scripture, nor had any to read, nor any copies to make or to preserve, ...
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Excerpt from The Age and Authorship of the Pentateuch Considered, Vol. 2: In Further Reply to Bishop Colenso Samuel, as the Bishop pretends, he may well find it difficult to imagine what possible occupation there could have been; for the f Schools of the Prophets, ' which were at that time beginning to make a name in Israel. From them, indeed, the Bishop ingeniously argues that the first writings of Holy Scripture emanated. But if they neither wrote Scripture, nor had any to read, nor any copies to make or to preserve, they must indeed have had little to occupy their minds. And one cannot well see what means were at hand of bringing them up to any useful occupation at all, though the Bishop thinks that among the promising young men of his time' (286) Samuel would have naturally found the exact sort of youth who might help him in reducing to order the floating traditions of the people, and in composing just such a work as the Pentateuch (287) 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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