Excerpt from The Triple Tradition of the Exodus: A Study of the Structure of the Later Pentateuchal Books, Reproducing the Sources of the Narrative, and Further Illustrating the Presence of Bibles Within the Bible

Part I. Of The Genesis of Genesis was devoted to explaining the nature of the higher criticism in its two branches of source analysis and historical criticism, vindicating its right in the field of sacred literature, and exhibiting its general results in the Hexateuch. What was said there it is the less needful to repeat, for the reason that the intervening years have witnessed the appearance of several works in English, ad mirably presenting these same results, among which I need here mention only Canon S. F. Driver's Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament, Scribners, New York, 1891, and Mr. W. G. Addis' Documents of the Hexateuch, Put nams, New York, 1893.

Neither do we need to add to the manifold and still unrefuted refutation of the Rabbinic tradition of Mosaic authorship. The ground is cleared the facts are in evidence which show the extrication of sources in Genesis to be no illu sion nor impossibility; the presupposition must now be that they are also extricable in the further course of the same com posite narrative. Indeed the concessions of the most extreme defenders of tradition as to the earlier portions of Genesis, and the more important admissions of the school represented by Principal Cave, that the results of the documentary analysis are to be accepted in the main up to Ex. Vi., decidedly alter the conditions of the controversy. The burden of proof hence forth should rest upon those who admit that the Pentateuch is analyzable in part, but wish to draw the line at Gen. Xii., or at Ex. Vi., or at some other arbitrary point.

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