BIBLE STORIES
SIMPLY SYMBOLIC
MODERN VIEWS OF SCRIPTURES
DEVOUT SCHOLARS’ INTERPRETATIONS.
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[Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.) (Received 1, 9.20 a.m.) London, Nov. 30. The “Daily Mail" is featuring “An Epoch in Bible Criticism," whioh is the work of some of the most learned and most devout scholars of the Anglican communion and in which certain long-accepted Biblical stories are declared myths.
The editor is Dr. Charles Gore, the greatest living English theologian, assisted by Canon Goudge. and the Rev. Alfred Guillaume The book declares that Bible stories such as those relating to the flood and the turning of Lot’s wife into a pillar of salt ar© simply symbols. While the book contains few sur. prises to anyone acquainted with th© trend of higher criticism and the views of liberal churchmen, many of its statements are likely to shock orthodox people. Among the opinions of contributors are that Genesis is legendary, Isaiah is largely a compilation, the idea of the Garden of Eden is common to more than one primitive race. Methuselah’s age is physiologically incompatible with the structure of the human body, and so forth.
The evidence of Christ’s existence and resurrection however, are regarded as overwhelming.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 297, 1 December 1928, Page 5
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