The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua in the Light of the Science and Moral Sense of Our Age : A Complement to All Criticisms of the Text (Classic Reprint)

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Chaldaean, and only came into use after the Exile. A few slabs and pillars rudely cut in Intaglio, and in a more ancient character, are all we possess from which an idea can be formed of the kind of writing that was practised in the earlier ages of their existence by the Semitic tribes inhabiting Western Asia.

How long the legends, which enter so largely into the constitution of the Hebrew writings proper, floated among the people before they were reduced to writing, it is impossible to say; but the date at which they acquired the shape in which they have reached us, is now hardly doubt ful. These writings have, in fact, been brought ever near and nearer to times concerning which we have something like reliable records, whilst the events of which they speak and the personages who figure in them, so long regarded as historical realities, are seen-in the same measure to resolve themselves into phantoms, with no more of sub stance or reality than the dreams of the poet or the visions of the Seer.

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