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harmony with the narrative. This is very significant of the final outcome of research in early Bible history. Because views of Scripture must finally square with the results of archaeology; that is to say, with contemporaneous history, and the archaeological testimony of these past five years well in dicates the present trend toward the final conclusion. The Bible narrative plainly interpreted at its face value is every where being sustained, while, of the great critical theories pro posing to take Scripture recording events of that age at other than the face value, as the illiteracy of early Western Semitic people, the rude nomadic barbarity of Palestine and the Desert in the patriarchal age, the patriarchs not individuals but per sonifications, the Desert “Egypt,” the gradual invasion of Pal estine, the naturalistic origin of Israel’s religion, the incon sequence of Moses as a law-giver, the late authorship of the Pentateuch, and a dozen others, not a single one is being defi nitely supported by the results of archaeological research. In deed, reconstructing criticism hardly finds it worth while, for the most part, to look to archaeology for support. The recent testimony of archaeology to Scripture, like all such testimony that has gone before, is definitely and uniform ly favorable to the Scriptures at their face value, and not to the Scriptures as reconstructed by criticism.
AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO ABOVE.
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN REFERENCES. O. L. Z.=Orientalistischen Litteratur-Zeitung. Q. S.=Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Soci ety. REFERENCES. (1) Gen. 12:10-20; 13:1; 47:1-12. (2) Gen. 41:14-46. (3) Orr, “The Problem of the Old Testament,” pp. 57-58, quoting Schultz, Wellhausen, Kuenen, W. R. Smith, G. B. Gray. H. P. Smith, F. H. Woods.
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