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I cannot do better than conclude with a quotation from an interesting and pertinent article by Prof. Hommel, the illustrious orientalist, in the Sunday Selma! Times for March 5, 1893 It is the whole perception of history that divides all Old Testament theology into two opposing camps. The genuineness and authenticity of an account like that in Gen. Xiv. Involves a sweeping and destructive criticism of the now fashionable view as to the trustworthiness of the Old Testament traditions, and therefore this chapter will ever be a stumbling-block to those critics who will not allow a single line to be Mosaic, not even the Decalogue and the so-called Book of the Covenant; and accordingly these men for a long time to come will bend their utmost energies, though with little success, to remove this stone of offence from their path.
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The Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments Classic Reprint A H Sayce 9781332403684 Books
Sorry. This book went through 7 editions, the last one published in 1910. The 1910 version is available free on archive.org and incorporates material about archaeological discoveries in the 14 years after the first edition.Having said that, you really need to read some edition of Sayce. Wellhausen's Prolegomena (see my review) wasn't even twenty years old when Sayce published his book for the first time. And already, Sayce could show that the breadth of scholarship required to really understand the Tanakh didn't exist among scholars of the Documentary Hypothesis, willfully so, and that in their opinions physical evidence had to go to the wall when it conflicted with said opinions.
He could also level against them the charge that they pretended to adopt their attitudes as part of the scientific waves spreading across Europe, at the same time as they ignored scientific results that contradicted them. They emended texts to conform to their notions, and as every scientist knows, changing the data to support a concept that the data contradicts, is basically fraud. Ask Andrew Wakefield.
He revealed the bigotry of scholars who, trained in Greek and Latin classics, pretended to judge as if those works sprang fully formed and in divinely revealed writing from -- something, Athena and Zeus both being discredited -- instead of arising on a pyramid of prior development. They condemned everything before Homer and east of Miletus as barbaric, false and inconsiderable.
He convicts them of a number of fallacies such as false argument from silence and presentism.
Of course Sayce has his problems, just as any author does who draws conclusions in the middle of a series of studies. He tries to liken the twelve tablets of Gilgamesh to the twelve signs of the Roman zodiac. In 1910 Gilgamesh had not yet been published in its entirety in full scholarly fashion; that didn't happen until 1936. Sayce wrote a hundred years before the rediscovery of Ebla and the satellite imagery showing the five city foundations south of the Dead Sea and could not know that the reference to the Cities of the Plain in Genesis 10 show that the chapter could not have been invented in Assyrian times, 15 centuries after destruction of all six. At the same time as Sayce published his last edition, Axel Olrik was publishing his Principles for Oral Narrative Research which shows that the Documentary Hypothesis does not pass the test of Occam's Razor. (see my review) Olrik's book was not translated from Danish to English until 1992. All that is timing.
What is important about this book is that all of the flaws it reveals in Documentary Hypothesis are fundamental, original with Wellhausen's teachers and sources, and continuous through Ernest Nicholson's overview published in 1998, as well as recognized by people with scholarly backgrounds at the same time as people like Hermann Gunkel were doing some of the heavy lifting. It's not hindsight that is pointing out the flaws now. It's intelligence and even-handed shrewd perspicacity that pointed out the flaws then.
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The Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments Classic Reprint A H Sayce 9781332403684 Books Reviews
Sorry. This book went through 7 editions, the last one published in 1910. The 1910 version is available free on archive.org and incorporates material about archaeological discoveries in the 14 years after the first edition.
Having said that, you really need to read some edition of Sayce. Wellhausen's Prolegomena (see my review) wasn't even twenty years old when Sayce published his book for the first time. And already, Sayce could show that the breadth of scholarship required to really understand the Tanakh didn't exist among scholars of the Documentary Hypothesis, willfully so, and that in their opinions physical evidence had to go to the wall when it conflicted with said opinions.
He could also level against them the charge that they pretended to adopt their attitudes as part of the scientific waves spreading across Europe, at the same time as they ignored scientific results that contradicted them. They emended texts to conform to their notions, and as every scientist knows, changing the data to support a concept that the data contradicts, is basically fraud. Ask Andrew Wakefield.
He revealed the bigotry of scholars who, trained in Greek and Latin classics, pretended to judge as if those works sprang fully formed and in divinely revealed writing from -- something, Athena and Zeus both being discredited -- instead of arising on a pyramid of prior development. They condemned everything before Homer and east of Miletus as barbaric, false and inconsiderable.
He convicts them of a number of fallacies such as false argument from silence and presentism.
Of course Sayce has his problems, just as any author does who draws conclusions in the middle of a series of studies. He tries to liken the twelve tablets of Gilgamesh to the twelve signs of the Roman zodiac. In 1910 Gilgamesh had not yet been published in its entirety in full scholarly fashion; that didn't happen until 1936. Sayce wrote a hundred years before the rediscovery of Ebla and the satellite imagery showing the five city foundations south of the Dead Sea and could not know that the reference to the Cities of the Plain in Genesis 10 show that the chapter could not have been invented in Assyrian times, 15 centuries after destruction of all six. At the same time as Sayce published his last edition, Axel Olrik was publishing his Principles for Oral Narrative Research which shows that the Documentary Hypothesis does not pass the test of Occam's Razor. (see my review) Olrik's book was not translated from Danish to English until 1992. All that is timing.
What is important about this book is that all of the flaws it reveals in Documentary Hypothesis are fundamental, original with Wellhausen's teachers and sources, and continuous through Ernest Nicholson's overview published in 1998, as well as recognized by people with scholarly backgrounds at the same time as people like Hermann Gunkel were doing some of the heavy lifting. It's not hindsight that is pointing out the flaws now. It's intelligence and even-handed shrewd perspicacity that pointed out the flaws then.
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