PENTATEUCH, To the Editor of the Norrm-Cains Dana News."
Sir,—The writer of Cathedral Notes discussed the Bible in the "North-China Daily News'' of last Wednesday in the usual dogmatic base themselves at all on textual evidence. They relicd chiefly on Dr. Astruc's hypothesis that the Divine names, Jahvah, and Elohim, indicated different authorship This suggestion, which proves the composite nature of the Bible no more than the writer of a hymn who addresses the deity as God, Heaven, and Lord, need be a polytheist, became the bod of Procrustes for Higher Criticism, and every manner of violence was done to the that a thing must either be German, or valueless. And as_ the Semitic origin of the Bible could not very well be denied, it had to be dethroned and degraded. With like plausibility some tried to prove that Jesus was a_ Teuton, and the exiled Kaiser a Jew. am, ete., W. Hinser, Ohe! Rachel Synagogue,
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