The book Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament was written by author Eichhorn, Johann Gottfried, 1752-1827 Here you can read free online of Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament a good or bad book?
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And allowing our ancestors to have conducted it with the most unlucky results, does it follow that their successors, with the new aids at their service, Digitized by Googk CHAEACTEBS USED IN WBTTING 119 must be equally unfortunate ? And supposing it should so turn out, should they have denied their fortune with the new aids even a chance ? Section 65. — The Ancient Hebrews employed the Phxnieo^ Egypticm Oha/racters in Writing, — 1. Proof from History. Jacob and his family brought probably with ...them no knowledge of the art of writing into the land of Goshen ; at least, in their history as few traces thereof appear as in that of their ancestors. Their nomadic mode of life enabled them also to dispense with it ; and their powers of memory, unimpaired from youth upwards by written accounts, must by constant exercise on various occasions have acquired such strength as fully to compensate for the absence of writing. If the greater part of the Hebrew nation became ac- quainted with the art of writing before the Exodus (a circumstance which appears to me highly improbable), they must have acquired it under Egyptian tuition, and become necessarily accustomed to the Egyptian written character.
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