Excerpt from Essays on Some Biblical Questions of the Day: By Members of the University of Cambridge N either in the choice of subjects nor in the arrangement of the Essays has it been found possible to follow a system. The departments of Biblical study are less intimately related, have less of cohesion and logical order, than those of theological study, and no method of grouping can be altogether satisfactory. The Old Testament, however, natur ally claims a first place. In the field of Old Testament research historical criticism is at present predominant, and the Old Testament Essays in this book, it will be observed, deal largely with questions of this nature. The New Testament offers besides a number of problems requiring immediate attention from the textual critic, the student of sources, and the grammarian and some of these are handled in the following pages. Three Essays - the sixth, seventh, and eighth - are upon the borderland between the Old Testament and the New. 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.