The book The Message of Moses And Modern Higher Criticism was written by author Francis E Francis Ernest Charles Gigot Here you can read free online of The Message of Moses And Modern Higher Criticism book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Message of Moses And Modern Higher Criticism a good or bad book?
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They assert that the Hebrews owed their belief in only one God to prophets living centuries after Moses, whereas these same prophets bear distinct wit- ness to the fact that such belief was that of their nation ever since God freely chose it as His own people/^ They affirm that the Deuteronomic Code originated in the closing years of the mon- archy, ignoring all the while that this same Code contains laws the obvious import of which makes against that late date. Thus, Deuter. Xvii. 14, 15 conte...mplates the Hebrew monarchy as a thing of the future, and lays down that the future king should not be a foreign born: on the one hand, this enactment is unintelligible on the part of a supposed lawgiver living at a time when his 16 Cf. Amos ii. 9 sqq. ; iii. 1 sqq. ; Osee xi. 1; xii. 9 (Heb. Verse 10). 28 MESSAGE OF MOSES AND HIGHER CRITICISM nation had already had a long series of kings and was in no way tempted to set at its head a foreigner, seeing that for centuries the royal succession had been firmly established in the fam- ily of David; on the other hand, this same enact- ment is most intelligible on the part of Moses who naturally anticipated that after his death the Hebrews would desire a king like all other nations, and no less naturally forbade the elec- tion in such case of a foreign born, fully aware as he was of the misfortunes which had befallen Egypt when ruled over by a foreign dynasty.
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