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What the Scrip tures Claim for Them selves: I. The Wit ness of the Old Tes ta ment. 4. What the Scrip tures Claim for Them selves: II. The Wit ness of the New Tes ta ment. 5. What the Scrip tures Claim for Them selves: III. The Wit ness of the New Tes ta ment (Con tin ued) 6. Our Lord’s En dorse ment of the Old Tes ta ment Scrip tures. Book II. The Gen e sis Of Ra tio nal ism 1. The Pre-Ref or ma tion Pe riod. 2. The Pre-Ref or ma tion Pe riod (Con tin ued). 3. The Ref or ma tion. 4. De cay and Doubt. 5. The Be gin nings of Eng lish Ra tio nal ism. 6. Con ti nen tal Prepa ra tions for the Ra tio nal is tic Har vest. 7. Rally and De feat. 8. The Rise of Ger man Ra tio nal ism. 9. Blighted Hopes. 10. Deep en ing De cay. — The Rise of the Higher Crit i cism: Eich horn and Paulus. 11. Deeper Depths: As truc, De Wette, and Strauss. 12. The Last State Worse than the First: Vatke, Graf, Kayser, Kue nen. 5 13. Present Po si tion Of Ra tio nal ism: Well hausen, Reuss, Ritschl, Eng- lish Crit i cism. Book III. Crit i cal Re sults Tested By Mod ern Dis cov ery. 1. The Test Of Crit i cism: Cham pol lion; Grote fend; Sayce On The Minute Ac cu racy Of Scrip ture. 2. The Book Of Es ther: Ab sence Of The Name Of God. — Who Was Aha suerus? — Xerxes’ Feast. 3. Xerxes And Es ther. 4. The Book Of Es ther: Fur ther Con fir ma tions. 5. The Book of Daniel. 6. Al lu sions To Baby lo nian Court Offi cials And Court Cus toms. 7. Baby lo nian Names — Neb uchad nez zar’s Dream — The Two Lan- guages of the Book — A Sev en fold Test. I. Dreams as a Medium of Com mu ni ca tion II. The Sub ject of the Dream 8. The Wise Men of Baby lon. III. Cer tain men are rep re sented as mak ing the in ter pre ta tion of dreams their sole oc cu pa tion. IV. These oc cupy a high rank in the State. V. They are di vided into classes. VI. The classes bear cer tain names. VII. A cer tain offi cial is men tioned who is charged with their de- struc tion. 9. Neb uchad nez zar’s Golden Statue. 10. The Mu si cal In stru ments Men tioned In Daniel. 11. Baby lo nian Traits in Daniel. 12. Neb uchad nez zar’s Mad ness. 13. Who was Bels haz zar? 14. Bels haz zar’s Feast. 15. Dar ius the Me dian. 16. The Vi sions of Daniel. Ap pen dix. Archdea con Far rar On Daniel. Copy right No tice How Can You Find Peace With God? Bene dic tion Ba sic Bib li cal Chris tian ity | Books to Down load Es sen tial The ol ogy | Books to Down load 6 De vo tional Clas sics | Books to Down load 7 Pref ace by Lutheran Li brar ian In re pub lish ing this book, we seek to in tro duce this au thor to a new gen- er a tion of those seek ing au then tic spir i tu al ity. The Lutheran Li brary Pub lish ing Min istry finds, re stores and re pub lishes good, read able books from Lutheran au thors and those of other sound Chris tian tra di tions. All ti tles are avail able at lit tle to no cost in proof read and freshly type set edi tions. Many free e-books are avail able at our web site Luther an Li brary.org. Please en joy this book and let oth ers know about this com pletely vol un teer ser vice to God’s peo ple. May the Lord bless you and bring you peace. A Note about Ty pos [Ty po graph i cal Er rors] Please have pa tience with us when you come across ty pos. Over time we are re vis ing the books to make them bet ter and bet ter. If you would like to send the er rors you come across to us, we’ll make sure they are cor rected. 8 Pref ace. A FEW PREFA TORY WORDS may help the reader of the fol low ing pages to see the writer’s pur pose. It seemed to me es sen tial to as cer tain, first of all, what the Scrip tural view of in spi ra tion is. How did in spired men re gard the words which they and oth ers have handed on to us, and, above all, how did our Lord re ceive them? A clear and full an swer to that ques tion is the need of the hour. Once got, it would set tle this con tro versy for many. There is still loy alty enough in the Chris tian ranks to go any where with Je sus, and to sep a rate from ev ery thing that would sep a rate from Him. The first part of the present vol ume is an at tempt to meet this want. The sec ond part an swers an other ques tion. We want to know some thing of the other party to the con tro versy. “The higher crit ics” de mand the sur- ren der of our “tra di tional be liefs,” and ask us to grate fully re ceive from their hands a “re con structed” Bible. Who, then, are those new mas ters in Is- rael? Whence are they? What is their aim, and what has been their his tory? “The Gen e sis of Ra tio nal ism,” which forms the sec ond part of the Book, con tains a re ply. One sec tion more ap peared to be nec es sary. Crit i cism has reached cer- tain con clu sions re gard ing var i ous Books of Scrip ture. The older nar ra tives are de clared to be mere leg ends, and the his tory gen er ally is de scribed as tra di tion tinc tured by the time when it was put into writ ing. Cer tain Books of the Old Tes ta ment are said to fall be low even this low level. They are de- clared to be fic tions, the sooth ing ep i thet “pi ous” be ing gen er ally added, the rep re sen ta tion be ing that evil was done by the writ ers that good might come! All these con clu sions are placed be fore the pub lic as gen uine sci en- tific dis cov er ies. Now, in the strangest fash ion, facts have been brought to light, which en- able us to put those state ments to the proof.