Excerpt from The Age and Authorship of the Pentateuch The purpose of this volume is to furnish some modest contribution towards a vindication of the ancient belief in the Mosaic age and authorship of the Pentateuch, which has been so severely attacked by critics of various kinds during the last half-century. Necessarily the book will here and there assume a somewhat controversial tone and character, for it is impossible to write upon such a subject without being confronted at almost every point with the views of those who adopt what is gener ally described as the Higher Criticism. 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.