The Message of Moses And Modern Higher Criticism
The Message of Moses And Modern Higher Criticism
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They assert that the Hebrews owed their belief in only one God to prophets living centuries after Moses, whereas these same prophets bear distinct wit- ness to the fact that such belief was that of their nation ever since God freely chose it as His own people/^ They affirm that the Deuteronomic Code originated in the closing years of the mon- archy, ignoring all the while that this same Code contains laws the obvious import of which makes against that late date. Thus, Deuter. Xvii. 14, 15 conte...mplates the Hebrew monarchy as a thing of the future, and lays down that the future king should not be a foreign born: on the one hand, this enactment is unintelligible on the part of a supposed lawgiver living at a time when his 16 Cf. Amos ii. 9 sqq. ; iii. 1 sqq. ; Osee xi. 1; xii. 9 (Heb. Verse 10).
28 MESSAGE OF MOSES AND HIGHER CRITICISM nation had already had a long series of kings and was in no way tempted to set at its head a foreigner, seeing that for centuries the royal succession had been firmly established in the fam- ily of David; on the other hand, this same enact- ment is most intelligible on the part of Moses who naturally anticipated that after his death the Hebrews would desire a king like all other nations, and no less naturally forbade the elec- tion in such case of a foreign born, fully aware as he was of the misfortunes which had befallen Egypt when ruled over by a foreign dynasty.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They assert that the Hebrews owed their belief in only one God to prophets living centuries after Moses, whereas these same prophets bear distinct wit- ness to the fact that such belief was that of their nation ever since God freely chose it as His own people/^ They affirm that the Deuteronomic Code originated in the closing years of the mon- archy, ignoring all the while that this same Code contains laws the obvious import of which makes against that late date. Thus, Deuter. Xvii. 14, 15 conte...mplates the Hebrew monarchy as a thing of the future, and lays down that the future king should not be a foreign born: on the one hand, this enactment is unintelligible on the part of a supposed lawgiver living at a time when his 16 Cf. Amos ii. 9 sqq. ; iii. 1 sqq. ; Osee xi. 1; xii. 9 (Heb. Verse 10).
28 MESSAGE OF MOSES AND HIGHER CRITICISM nation had already had a long series of kings and was in no way tempted to set at its head a foreigner, seeing that for centuries the royal succession had been firmly established in the fam- ily of David; on the other hand, this same enact- ment is most intelligible on the part of Moses who naturally anticipated that after his death the Hebrews would desire a king like all other nations, and no less naturally forbade the elec- tion in such case of a foreign born, fully aware as he was of the misfortunes which had befallen Egypt when ruled over by a foreign dynasty.
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