The Religious Ideas Of The Old Testament Classic Reprint

Author : Harlan Creelman
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ISBN 13 : 9781331718833
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Old Testament written by Harlan Creelman and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introduction to the Old Testament: Chronologically Arranged It is one of the happy omens of a brighter future in regions of religious belief that thoughtful men and women who lay no claim to first-rate scholarship are yet exercising their unquestionable right to make judgments of their own. They are less content than ever before to take their views of the Bible and of its teachings at second hand. They furnish a growing audience which is eager to follow in the paths blazed for them by broadminded explorers, whose purpose is to make a way for others rather than to gain individual distinction in discovery. This Introduction will be of notable service to those who seek to master for themselves the reasons for the conclusions of reverent modem scholarship. The task is not a difficult one. No science is less obscure in its main trends and applications than that of historical criticism. Common sense plays a very large part in reaching its conclusions. It merely utilizes in the interpretation of the varied literature of the Bible those accepted canons of fair inquiry upon which human judgments concerning all other literary growth are based. It does not necessarily confine itself to those rules or methods. It may be as deeply spiritual as devotional study. It underlies, in fact, the richest and most permanent advances in Biblical knowledge of the present age. Such work as that of Davidson, George Adam Smith, Moffatt, Bruce, Skinner, Bennett, McFadyen, and Adeney in Great Britain or of Harper, McGiffert, Kent, Moore, Smith, Burton, Paton and others in this country, - interpretative and historical work of the most helpful type, which has developed a love of Biblical study in the hearts of hundreds of thousands, - is absolutely based upon a broad, generous, historical criticism. This volume makes a place for itself by its arrangement alone. No one can at this day write a critical Introduction to the Old Testament which will be at once helpful and very novel. 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.