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brew Pentateuch written with Samaritan letters , —^ General account of the Samaritan MSS .- ^ External state of the Samaritan MSS . —Of corrections and signatures contained in them . — Aee of the Samaritan MSS . —Value
and age of the Samaritan Pentateuch . —Of the different editions of the Hebrew text . —Editions of the fifteenth and following centuries . —Editions with commentaries or other critical additions . —Editions of the Hebrew-Samaritan Pentateuch .
Part . II . Introduction to the respective Books of the Old Testament . § 406—511 , pp . 233—666 . Of Moses . The preservation of writings from so early * period as the seventh century after the flood not impossible .
I . The five books of JVfoses proved to be more ancient than any of the other writing's of the Old Testamentfrom their style *—and from history , II . That the author cannot have lived subsequently to the time of Moses is shewn from internal evidence
in the books themselves and from history . —Ezra cannot have been the writer of them—nor are they the inventions of the priests about the tiwre of Josiah , or of that particular priest who was dispatched to the Samaritans —neither can they be attributed to David 8 —or to Samuel—or to Joshua .
III . Moses may have been the author . —Preliminary remarks . —Account of Moses . —None but a man like Moses could have been the author of the books extant under his name . Of Genesis .
The book of Genesis is compiled from ancient writtea documents or records . —Of . the mode of preserving accounts prior to the invention of printing—and of tliQ mode adopted in re cording , history when writing was first invented . —The book of Genesis
contains several separate and distinct recordB .- _ . The greatest part of Genets consists o € fragments from two dis-|? &ct historical works . r ~ This proved tfom the various repetitions in ittrom tfcq difference in point of styleand in point « f rfipiracter .--Btofch works wigiiw&kig . ifi au rera prior / to that of
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Moses are the productions of different authors . —Of their sources . — -Arrange ment of both works in Genesis- * -difficulty in separating them—attempt made to divide them * - —I . Record containing the name Elohim . —11 . Record bearing in it the name of Jehovah . — HI . Other document introduced into
Genesis , but , strictly speaking , belong ing to neither record . —Of the authenticity and genuineness of the book of Genesis . —Objections ta its age considered . —Of its object . Of the Books of Ewodus , L * eviticus r - Numbers and Deuteronomy *
Of their contents and internal arrangement . —History of the Hebrews prior to the birth of Moses , continued from the record in Genesis , exhibiting the name of Elohim . —Various passages in these books appear to have been written at the time when the events which
they record took place . —The books of Exodus , Leviticus and Numbers , in part compiled from detached essays . — --Of the period of time in which they were compiled . —Of Deuteronomy in
particular . —Of its author and of the atithor of Exodus , Leviticus and Numbers . —Objection to their being the productions of Moses considered . —Of their genuineness , —Lit ^ rtpy history of the Pentateuch ^ . .
Of the Booh of Joshua . A great portion of its contents must have been written at the time wheiv Joshua lived . —Difficult to suppose ther book of Joshua to have been written
at the precise period of the conquest of Canaan . —Obstacles attending gufcb a conjecture only to be removed by admitting it to be the production of U period subsequent to Joshua . —Plan of the book—probable time in which it was written , —Of its authpr—its genu ^ iaeness and authenticity—its history . .
Of the Booh of Judges . Inappropriate application of the term Judges *—rThe . book of Judges consists of two parts . —Of the author of the first sixteen chapters . — -Of their age . —Of the age and author of the remainder ,- —Of the genuineness and authenticity of the book of Judges ^—Of its history . ? Of the Book of Ruth . OMect of tliis book—Qf Ha afcd—
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Eichhorrts Introduction to the Old Testament . 883 y
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 583, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/15/
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