The Problem of the Old Testament Considered With Reference to Recent Criticism
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). (2) There are alleged, next, certain Ais^omaZ discrepancies, some of them, we cannot but think, instructive examples of that Widerspruchsjdgerei — "hunting for contradictions" — which Delitzsch not unjustly ascribes to the school of Well- hausen. 2 The opponents of the unity of Deuteronomy find numerous inconsistencies in the different parts of the book itself (e. G. , between chaps, v. -xi. And xii. -xxvi. , or between chaps, i. -iv. And v. -xxvi. ) ; but these the critical defenders of the... unity find means of satisfactorily explaining.^ A slight extension of the same skill, we are persuaded, would enable them to dispose as satisfactorily of most of the others. On the general relation to the preceding history, it is agreed on all hands that the retrospects in Deuteronomy presuppose the narratives of JE, and reproduce them with substantial fidelity. * The Wellhausen school, in accordance with its principles, denies any similar dependence on the P sections of the history ; ^ but this it is difficult to maintain in view of the considerable number of references to par- ticulars, and turns of expression, found only in P.
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