Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from What Is the Bible? An Inquiry Into the Origin and Nature of the Old and New Testaments in the Light of Modern Biblical Study
The character and purpose of this book can be most clearly indicated to the reader by stating the relations in which it stands to another book by the same author. In the Fall of 1883 I embodied the results of several years of study in a work on "The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture." It was the design of that work to state in full the answer which modern biblical study makes to inquiry - critical, historical, and dogmatic - into the origin and nature of the Old and New Testaments. The form of statement, however, was such as to adapt it to the wants of patient, special students of the Bible; the entire ground was gone over in detail, the evidence presented, and the authorities cited at every step in the discussion.
It has always been my intention at some time to put the conclusions of this large treatise into a form better adapted to the wants of the multitude of readers of the English Bible. I am well aware that but few of these readers have the time or previous training necessary for studying a critical work in two large volumes, even though it be upon a subject of so great moment and absorbing interest as the Holy Scriptures.
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