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A New Commentary on Holy Scripture Including the Apocrypha was written by a variety of respected Anglican scholars and edited by Charles Gore, H. L. Goudge, and Alfred Guillaume. Created in the spirit of progressive criticism, this commentary posits conclusions that differ widely from the accepted views of the day. The scholars dedicated to this work believed that the Apocrypha was extremely...

By L. ELLIOTT BINNS The Old Testament of our English Bible is translated from what is known as the Massoretic Text of the Hebrew. This text was the fruit of the long labours of the scribes and Massoretes (see below), and represents a single type of text which has successfully crushed all Hebrew rivals. As a result the textual criticism of the Old Testament is a much simpler matter than that of the New, for which many varieties of text and reading have come down to