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| Titre : | The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined Volume 2 |
| Auteurs : | John Colenso |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | [S.l.] : General Books, 2012 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-235-67106-7 |
| Résumé : |
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. 1863. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII. CONCLUDING REMAKKS. 485. The preceding investigations have led us to the conclusion that the Pentateuch most probably originated in a noble effort of one illustrious man, in an early age of the Hebrew history, to train his people in the fear and faith of the Living God. For this purpose he appears to have adopted the form of a history, based upon the floating legends and traditions of the time, filling up the narrative, we may believe,--perhaps, to a large extent,--out of his own imagination, where those traditions failed him. In a yet later day, though still, probably, in the same age, and within the same circle of writers, the work thus begun, which was, perhaps, left in a very unfinished state, was taken up, as we suppose, and carried on in a similar spirit, by other prophetical or priestly writers. To Samuel, however, we ascribe the Elohistic story, which forms the groundwork of the whole, though comprising, as we shall show hereafter, but a small portion of the present Pentateuch and book of Joshua--in fact, little besides about half of the book of Genesis and a small part of Exodus. 486. But, in order to realise to ourselves in some measure the nature of such a work, as that which we here ascribe to Samuel, we may imagine such a man as Asser, in the time of King Alfred, sitting down to write an accurate account of events, which had happened four centuries before, when different tribes of Saxons, under Hengist and Horsa, and other famous leaders,--the Old Saxons, Angles, Jutes, &c., all kindred tribes,--came over the sea at different times, in larger or smaller bodies, and took possession of the land of Britain. Yet Samuel's sources of information, for the composition of such a history, must have been far less complete than those which ... ** |
