A Letter to Old Testament Critics (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Letter to Old Testament Critics I do not challenge the results to which Old Testament critics have attained, but I desire to call attention to certain neglected quantities which must very greatly modify the solution of the problem at which we all aim. The Priest-code, which according to custom I denote by P, forms the backbone of Genesis. Its formal and numerical character has often been noted, but the reason for this, and the extent to which P in Genesis is constructed upon the number ten, has not been noticed. P in Genesis consists of ten "Generations" which are introduced by the formula "These are the Generations of &c., " About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.