The Failure of the Higher Criticism
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E. , in the fifth centuiy B. C. — ^he could not have written in Genesis xiv, Chedorlaomer, which in that century was unknown at Babel, but should have written Kudurlagamar, which spelling alone was current in his time.^ This, far from proving his case, is one more argument against him, in that it only proves his natural attempt to cover up the traces of his forgery, and to choose from among the various forms of Kudur- laomer the one which had the most archaic ap- pearance in sound. It is eviden...t that the most elementary cunning of forgers of allegedly an- cient documents will suffice to suggest to them the choice of the most likely verbiage and style. Is it, for instance, possible to assume that a modern forger who wants to foist a false manu- ^Plommel, The Ancient Hebrew Tradition (1897), p. 165.
118 The Failure of the Higher Criticism.
script of Chaucer on some silly amateur, will write it in the prose of the eighteenth century ? An obscure Frenchman, by the name, if we mis- take not, of Alphonse Daudet, has indeed done such an incredibly perverse thing in his novel 'Ulmmortel' in which a member of the French Academy, and thus one of our respected col- leagues, is said to have been taken in by forged manuscripts dating, apparently, from the four- teenth century, although manifestly written in the prose of nineteenth-century France.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
E. , in the fifth centuiy B. C. — ^he could not have written in Genesis xiv, Chedorlaomer, which in that century was unknown at Babel, but should have written Kudurlagamar, which spelling alone was current in his time.^ This, far from proving his case, is one more argument against him, in that it only proves his natural attempt to cover up the traces of his forgery, and to choose from among the various forms of Kudur- laomer the one which had the most archaic ap- pearance in sound. It is eviden...t that the most elementary cunning of forgers of allegedly an- cient documents will suffice to suggest to them the choice of the most likely verbiage and style. Is it, for instance, possible to assume that a modern forger who wants to foist a false manu- ^Plommel, The Ancient Hebrew Tradition (1897), p. 165.
118 The Failure of the Higher Criticism.
script of Chaucer on some silly amateur, will write it in the prose of the eighteenth century ? An obscure Frenchman, by the name, if we mis- take not, of Alphonse Daudet, has indeed done such an incredibly perverse thing in his novel 'Ulmmortel' in which a member of the French Academy, and thus one of our respected col- leagues, is said to have been taken in by forged manuscripts dating, apparently, from the four- teenth century, although manifestly written in the prose of nineteenth-century France.
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