The New Testament and the Pentateuch. By C. F. Nosgen,
D.D. Translated from the German by C. H. Irwin, M.A. (R.T.S. 2s.) —Professor Nosgen, who follows the line taken by Hengstenberg, gives us here a powerful argument on the conservative side. He insists, and with much force, on the position accorded to Moses by Christ and His Disciples as an instrument of the divine- revelation to Israel. It can hardly be denied that to relegate the great Hebrew lawgiver to the region of myth would be to inter- fere most seriously with the plain meaning of New Testament teaching. The argument, also, for the sanction given to much of the Pentateuch narrative is of considerable weight. Professor Nosgen makes Deuteronomy, we see, coeval with the other books of the Pentateuch. This seems a very difficult hypothesis to support. We do not see that he maintains the early date of the elaborate
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