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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...

in its final form to the period of the exile. His analysis embraced the entire Pentateuch, unlike those of his predecessors who had for the most part restricted themselves to Genesis. The rationalistic tendencies of Geddes found another adherent in the person of W. M. L. De Wette, who supported to some extent the fragmentary theory of Pentateuchal origins in his Beiträge zur Einleitung in das Alte Testament, published in 1807. He parted company with previous critics in affirming that the earliest
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