THE BIBLE AND MODERN CRITICISM BY SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B., LL.D. WITH A PREFACE BY THE RIGHT REVEREND HANDLEY C. G. MOULE, D.D. BISHOP OF DURHAM FIFTH EDITION LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27 PATERNOSTER ROW THE PREFACE HE following chapters have little need of any prefatory remarks of mine. Alike their subject, their material, and the author's handling of that material, will command the attention of a wide circle of readers, and will indeed repay it. But I am honoured by the request to prefix these few paragraphs, and I obey. I have the author's full leave to say that there are details in the matter of the book, and even certain aspects of the treatment, from which I hold myself detached. For example, I cannot commit myself to concurrence with the whole of the important but incidental criticism of the Revised Version. I am in suspense on some main items of Sir R. Anderson's discussion of outlines of the prophetic future, while I regard with profound respect the ability and the suggestiveness of the discussion. Again, I must dissociate myself from certain passages which 143917 |