The Religious Value of the Old Testament in the Light of Modern Scholarship

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It is the theory held in common by the Deists of England and by the theologians of the Ger- man Aufklarung. It postulated that a right- eous and merciful God, a high sense of moral obhgation, and the hope of immortahty were the property of mankind at creation ; that, while not given by special revelation, as the older the- ologians surmised, they were an inaUenable part of the constitution of the race. To recover the true religion, it was necessary only to remove the debris of history and discl...ose the heart of primi- tive man. But an inteUigent study of the He- brew Scriptures alone is enough to show that A MODERN VIEW 47 this is utterly false. The hope of immortality is clearly a late conception among the Jews, and the sublime Jehovah of the prophets was as unknown to Samson as to Agamemnon.
Our God is a Being gradually discovered by the tremendous struggles of the men whose Uves and whose glorious enthusiasm on emergence into the light the Old Testament alone of all books describes.


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