Capitolo 11
Any historical document has possibly been submitted never to a severer or
he/she criticizes more minute than has these books during the last two centuries.
It is sure to say that any important passage and any paragraph perhaps has
escaped the most penetrating and patient analysis by the acutest and more
extremely he/she trained of chins; but as he/she anchors, till now as the science of history it is
party, the results are disappointing. The order in that the events
happened you/he/she is been able to be questioned with success and the sequence of the
history hypothetically rearranged; but, in general you/he/she had to be admits,
what the weight of the whole evidence got from the monuments of
contemporary peoples has been to confirm the reliability of the Biblical one
narrative. For example, nobody longer doubts that indeed Joseph was a
Jewish that of rose through worth, to the tallest offices of state under a
Egyptian monarch, and that it conceived and it brought with success in
execution an agrarian and comprehensive policy of which it had the effect
transferring the land piece of ground of ground of the great feudal aristocracy to the
you crown, and to change completely Egyptian estates. Neither ago some one
you question, to this day, the reality of the power that the Biblical writers
attributed to the empire of the Hittites. Under such conditions the course
some commentator is clear. He should treat the Jewish record as
reliable, except where it frankly accepts the miracle as an it showed
fact, and even then the respect the miracle as a main point and more suggestive
part of the great Jewish epic poem that you/he/she has always had and it always has to have,
an influence of capital on human thought.
The Pentateuch, has been shown indeed for being a compilation of
a lot of chronicles systematized by different writers to different durations, and
mixed in an unity under different degrees of pressure, but now, as the
stands of book, are as authentic a record as you/he/she could be desired of the
constant work of the mind of Mosaic and the minds of those of his/her followers that