Is The Higher Criticism Scholarly

1 00.1. Is the Higher Criticism Scholarly? 2 00.2. FOREWORD 3 01. IS THE HIGHER CRITICISM SCHOLARLY? 4 02. Countering With Proof, Defensive and Offensive 5 03. The Old Testament Derived From Written Sources Based on Contemporary Documents 6 04. Age-long Correspondence in the Chronology of the Bible and Profane History 7 05. A Foundation for Reliance 8 06. Correct Order and Character of the Kings 9 07. A Biblical Phenomenon Unequaled in the History of Literature 10 08. The Correctness of Hebrew Authors a Basis for Faith 11 09. Intruding Foreign Words as Date-Setters 12 10. The Ever-Changing Influx of New Words in Hebrew Scriptures 13 11. No Whit Different From Our Own Language To-day 14 12. Critics Undervalue the Totality of the Evidence 15 13. Why Are Persian Words Missing in Critic-Belated Bible Books? 16 14. How Greek Words May Have Crept Into Daniel 17 15. Why Daniel May Have Used Persian Words 18 16. Hebraisms in Aramaic, Not Aramaisms in Hebrew 19 17. A Theory That Would Make All Documents Late 20 18. Hebrew Literary Forms Duplicated in Babylon and Egypt 21 19. The Same True of Legal Forms 22 20. An Argument From Silence Which Proves Nothing 23 21. Ample Time for Revision of Laws 24 22. Were the “Redactors” Slipshod Editors? 25 23. Will Objectors Please Answer a Few Questions? 26 24. Why the Emphasis on the Shedding of Blood? 27 25. Ezra’s Careful Camouflage! 28 26. ‘‘To the Text and to the Testimony!” 29 27. Why Do the Critics Reject Chronicles? 30 28. An Inconsistent Theory Made to Fit 31 29. Psalm Writers Would Not Have Absurdly Attributed Their Work to Pre-Captivity Authors 32 30. The “Jaddua” of Chronicles and of Josephus Not Necessarily the Same 33 31. Ewald Utterly Refuted in the Argument Regarding the Title “King of Persia” 34 32. Inexcusable Ignorance of Evidence on the Part of Notable Critics Exposed 35 33. Variations in Numbers Will be Better Understood When Israel’s Numerical Signs Are Discovered 36 34. The Chronicler Need Not Have Copied From Kings 37 35. Prophecies That Contain No Persian or Greek Word 38 36. Nothing in 1800 Years of History to Invalidate the Old Testament 39 37. The Plan, Purpose, and People of the History of Redemption Offer a Reasonable Basis for Belief 40 38. A Parallel Monstrosity to the Denial of Old Testament History Imagined 41 39. Grovel for Beetles,—or Pluck Violets?