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The scientific study of the Old Testament, its principal results, and their bearing upon religious instruction

CONTENTS Preface vii I. RESULTS BASED UPON THE EXCAVATIONS Introduction: What do we mean by authentic results? 1 Degrees of certainty 2 1. Assyrian-Babylonian parallels to the Biblical stories of antediluvian times ... 9 (a) Creation and Fall . . 10 (b) The Deluge 16 (c) The antediluvian patriarchs 19 2. The Code of Hammurabi and the Mosaic law 25 (a) Significance of the Hammurabi Code 25 (b) Compared with that of Moses . . 28 (c) The formation of the Mosaic law (c/II. 1) 37 3. Tell Amama^ Gezer, Taanach^ Megiddo, and the ancient Canaanitish civilisation and religion . . . . . 40 (a) The Amama discovery and its significance 41 (b) The excavations in Palestine . 43 (c) The civilisation and religion of ancient Canaan .... 50 II. RESULTS BASED UPON LITERARY CRITICISM The legal literature (cf. L 2) . . . 60 (a) Nature and importance of Pentateuch criticism 6l (b) A summary of its history; its principal schools . . . . 71 (c) Its abiding results and its future problems (the Deuteronomist the Priestly Code the Jahwist and the Elohist) 76 2. Nature and method of Hebrew historical writings 92 (a) The older form of the so-called historical books 94 (b) Their present form .... 99 (c) Their h

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