Excerpt from The Methodist Review, 1913, Vol. 95: Bimonthly Kingdom of Israel, for he shows peculiar interest in persons and places connected with the land of Ephraim. He is more prosaic and didactic in his style, and is much less given to anthropomorphic conceptions of God than the southern J udaean writer. He has more to say about dreams and less about visions. These two sources are commonly designated, for convenience of reference, by the letters J and E. Both these writers are believed to have lived and written during the century B. 0. 850-750. Each of them is supposed to have gathered up the oral traditions of his people, current in hi time, and to have cast them in literary form. Ou the hypothesis that what is recorded in Num. 22 to 24 is a compilation out of two or more such written sources'of information, we may reason ably expect to discover internal evidences of the fact. A compiler making use of such parallel documents would, of course, utilize whatever suited his purpose. He would not study to conceal hi. 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.