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. 1885. Excerpt: ... II. ANALYSIS OF THE PENTATEUCH AND OF ITS CRITICISM. A General sketch, by way of analysis of the Pentateuch and of its criticism, may be helpful, if not to the student, yet to the general reader. For the materials of it I am indebted to Kleinert, 'Abriss der Einleitung zum Alten Testament.' To this analysis I propose to add an enumeration of the passages, which Wellhausen designates as composing QP; and, lastly, a brief notice of some of the Laws--especially in the 'Priest-Code '--which the Rabbis found necessary to modify, for the purpose of adapting them to the later circumstances of the people.. I. Analysis of the Pentateuch-Legislation (according to Bertheau and others). The Pentateuch-Legislation forms one connected whole, which consists of these three parts: --1. The fundamental Institutions of civil and religious life: Exod. xx.-xxiii.; and Lev. xviii.-xx. Closely connected with these are the sections: Exod. xxxiv. 11-26; xiii. 2-lfi; Numb, xxxiii. 51, &c. The (first) Exodus group of Laws (xx.-xxiii.) is based on the manifestation of Jehovah, as the Deliverer from Egyptian bondage; the Leviticus-group on that of Jehovah as the Holy One. 2. The Laws relating to Worship (the Sanctuary, priesthood, sacred observances and seasons), which constitute the main portion of the legislation between Exodus xxv. and Numbers xix. They involve a detailed system of symbolism as regards objects, measurements, and numbers. Such notices as Lev. vii. 37, 38; xi. 46, 47; xiii. 59; xiv. 54, 55; xv. 32, 33, show, that the groups of Laws to which they are attached must have circulated as rubrics among the priesthood. 3. The Deuteronomic Laws, Deut. v.-xxvi., referring to the civic relations of the people. In part they reproduce the legislation of the middle books of the Pe...