The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined. By the
Right Rev. John William Colenso, D.D., Bishop of Natal. Part IV. (Longman and Co.)—In this instalment of his work the Bishop examines critically the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis, and contends that they are composed of two documents in nearly equal proportions, of which one when dissevered from the other forms a continuous narrative, and the other is either fragments of a continuous narrative interpolated into the first, or else annotations upon the first. The Bishop further con- tends that both narratives are plainly at variance with science. These are the kind of propositions which Dr. Gray and his suffragans have pronounced to be heresy, and which Dr. Longley says have been refuted by Archbishop Usher. We trust that when the Archbishop sits as judge of appeal from the Metropolitan of Cape Town, he will establish this latter proposition, for it much needs support.
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