THE COMPOSITION OF THE PENTATEUCH
The Literary Analysis and its Conclusions—Based on a Theory and an
Assumption—Weakness of the Philological Evidence—Disregard of the
Scientific Method of Comparison—Imperfection of our Knowledge of
Hebrew—Archæeology unfavourable to the Higher Criticism—Analysis of
Historical Sources—Tel el-Amarna Tablets—Antiquity of Writing in the
East—The Mosaic Age highly Literary—Scribes mentioned in the Song of
Deborah—The Story of the Deluge brought from Babylonia to Canaan before
the time of Moses—The Narratives of the Pentateuch confirmed by
Archæeology—Compiled from early Written Documents—Revised and re-edited
from time to time—Three Strata of Legislation—Accuracy in the
Text—Tendencies—Chronology ... Pp. 100-151