The Bible and Modern Criticism; By Robert Anderson with a Preface by the Right Reverend Handley C. G. Moule Paperback - 2009

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...in presenting a case to the court. On the contrary he is careful to state it with perfect fairness, and to notice every point in favour of the accused aswell as against him. Not so, however, a private prosecutor. The "exaggerations" of the German critics are the clearest proof that the crusade against Daniel was the outcome of prejudice or malice. In my published defence of the book I have not sought to score a single point by trading on these "exaggerations." The popularity of the Dean of Canterbury precluded my ignoring him, but I have taken Professor Driver as the accredited exponent of the case of the English critics. And in meeting his indictment of Daniel, I have accepted his own statement of the evidence. Any competent tribunal would, I believe, decide that the Septuagint translation of the book is older than the date to which the critics assign the Hebrew original, and that the canon of the Old Testament was closed anterior to that date. But meeting them on their own ground, I have shown that no part of their case against the book will stand the test of cross-examination. And further, it has been demonstrated that its great central prophecy has been fulfilled in Messianic times with absolute definiteness and precision. And this demonstration Professor Driver himself has cited,1 only to leave it and pass on; though if it remains unchallenged it should end the controversy. If there are those whose faith in Scripture depends on the fate of Daniel, a brief summary of the defence of the book may serve only to Book of Daniel, p. 149. Ch. X. DANIEL: HISTORICAL ERRORS 135 prejudice the issue. And yet the briefest summary is all that can be given within the limits of this chapter.1 The critics' attack upon the book rests on three grounds: ...