The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes

by Geerhardus Vos

Publisher:

Hodder and Stoughton

, 1886

Overview

This is the volume that brought Vos to the forefront of scholarship in his day. Originally published as his dissertation, The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes rebukes and refutes the then-modern scholarship of German theologians challenging the Mosaic authorship of the first five books of the Bible. Vos lays the groundwork for future scholarship in defense of Moses as the historical writer for the Pentateuch.

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Key Features

• Rebukes and refutes the then-modern scholarship of German theologians
• Discusses the authorship of the first five books of the bible
• Explores Moses as the historical writer for the Pentateuch

Table of Contents

• Statement and Division of the Subject
• History of the Linguistic Argument of the Critics
• The Linguistic Argument Examined
• Incompleteness of the Codes
• System, or Disorder?
• Contradictions and Repetitions
• Development of Law
• Unity or Plurality of Sanctuary?
• The Sacrificial System
• Priests and Levites
• Levitical and Priestly Revenues
• Feasts
• Unity of Deuteronomy and the Laws of the Intermediate Books
• Internal Evidence for the Mosaic Origin of the Deuteronomic Code
• Objections Answered
• Internal Evidence of the Mosaic Origin of the Laws in Exodus–Numbers
• Testimony of the Historical Books—Judges, First and Second Samuel, First and Second Kings
• Testimony of the Early Prophets
• Testimony of the Poetical Books
• Second Kings XXII. and Nehemiah VIII.–X.
• Did Moses Write the Laws?

Endorsements

I do not know where a more satisfactory exhibition can be found, of what intelligent readers would wish to learn, in so small a compass.

—W. Henry Green, professor of Biblical and Oriental Literature, Princeton Theological Seminary

Product Details

• Title: The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes
• Author: Geerhardus Vos
• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
• Print Publication Date: 1886
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 263
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Pentateuch › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Resource ID: LLS:MSCCORGNVOS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:39:58Z

About Geerhardus Vos

Geerhardus Vos (1862–1949), a Reformed theologian and one of the most distinguished representatives of the Princeton Theology, he is sometimes called the father of Reformed Biblical Theology. He earned degrees from Calvin Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Strasbourg (PhD in Arabic). In 1894 he was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church in the USA. Before beginning a thirty-nine-year tenure on Princeton’s faculty, he was professor of systematic and exegetical theology at Calvin Theological Seminary.