Hebrew Records; An Historical Enquiry Concerning the Age, Authorship and Authenticity of the Old Testament (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1850 Excerpt: ... that the authors, whoever they were, had a good opportunity of knowing that they wrote nothing but the truth. CHAPTER 9. Of The Reputed Authors Of The Several Books In The Old Testament. In the introduction to the First volume of D'Oyly and Mant's edition of the Bible, I find the following passage: The first five books of the Bible, commonly called the Pentateuch, were composed by Moses, as the concurrent testimonies of all ages declare; and, as hath ever been firmly believed by the Jews, with whom the fact continues to this day to be one of the thirteen articles of their creed. The word "Pentateuch" is of Greek original; being compounded of two words, signifying five, and look or volume. It was probably first prefixed to the Greek version of the " Septuagint" or seventy translators; to denote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy: all of which had been written by the hand of Moses in Hebrew, probably in the order in which they now stand, though not distributed by their author into books, but forming one continued work. The same editors give us, compiled from Dr Gray and Bishop Tomline, the following remarks concerning the reputed author of the book of Joshua: The book of Joshua continues the sacred history from the death of Moses to the deaths of Joshua and Eleazar, a space of about thirty years. It contains an account of the conquest and division of the land of Canaan, the renewal of the covenant with the Israelites, and the death of Joshua. There are two passages in this book which shew that it was written by a person, who lived at the time when the events happened. In the 1st verse of chap, v, the author speaks of himself as being one of those who passed into Canaan, by using the expression, "Until we were passed over." And in the 25th ver...