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Harrison, writing from a conservative point of view, offers a thorough guide to the Old Testament for both scholar and novice. Thoroughly researched and fully documented, this superb volume begins with a lengthy section on the history of the criticism of the Old Testament, viewing the Hebrew Scriptures in the light of archaeology, chronology, history, religion and theology. Various views are...

the Cambridge Bible series, as well as publishing books dealing with the Psalms and the Wisdom Literature.24 Unfortunately Cheyne fell victim to the practice of excessive textual emendation—a procedure necessary in order to fit certain awkward portions of the Hebrew text into the Wellhausenian evolutionary scheme—and much of what he contributed to the Encyclopaedia Biblica, of which he was an editor, must be assessed in the light of this fact. But by far the most influential figure in the dissemination
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