Reconstructive Criticism

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Excerpt from Reconstructive Criticism: A Theory to Reconcile the Difficulties of Higher Criticism Our survey will be confined to the narrative portions of the Old Testament. The prophetic and poetic portions will not be considered. Higher Criticism rejects a Pentateuch and accepts a Hexateuch. This result simply means, that the traditional view of the authorship of the first five books of the Bible is abandoned. Hence, according to Higher Criticism, Moses did not write the Pentateuch. The denial of the authorship of these books has in it no especial danger, so that there must needs spring up, in consequence, a Mediating School. But the star scholars of Higher Criticism deny with their proofs, not only the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, but also the credibility of these books. Kuenen says, in regard to the description of the exodus from Egypt, the wandering in the desert, the conquest and partition of Canaan, that "their representations, to put it in a word, are utterly unhistorical, and therefore can not have been committed to writing until centuries after Moses and Joshua." Our faith in Scripture as the word of God requires the credibility of what we read. There may be need of rearrangement, confusion may have been worked into the books by the hand of man, but the facts, for instance, of Moses' life, must be as credible as the facts which are recorded of the life of Christ. The Mediating School attempts to demonstrate that Christians must accept the data of destructive critics, and by a peculiar kind of mental wriggling still hold to the credibility of the record. Professor H. G. Mitchell, of Boston Theological School, is a mediating critic. And he, in his resume of the results of Higher Criticism, says "that the Pentateuch is mainly composed of four documents. Of these, the oldest are the Jahvistic, written in Judah, and the Elohistic, written in Ephraim not long before or after 800 B. C., but which of them antedates the other is not yet decided. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.