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Archeology and Higher Criticism

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 4, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 27.

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Archeology and Higher Criticism

ONE of the corner-stones of the higher criticism is that the book of Leviticus was written after the Babylonish captivity. The spade of the archeologist has now undermined that corner-stone. According to the Western Recorder, excavations at Elephantine, on the Upper Nile, show that the Jews had a temple there, and offered their sacrifices as prescribed in Leviticus, long before the Babylonish captivity. The so-called “mistakes of Moses” do not loom very large when compared with the real mistakes of the higher critics. Yet it is a surprising fact that this “gospel of disintegration and doubt” is permeating pulpit and pew in nearly every denomination in the world, ruining faith in the Word of God, and rapidly augmenting the ranks of infidelity.