The Bible and Higher Criticism: Read at the Summer School of the American Institute of Christian Philosophy, July 6, 1893 (Classic Reprint)
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Now it is just at this day when the Bible in certain learned cir cles is denied as a revelation, as the Word of the living God, that we are able to show this test in the clearest possible light. It is in this day when the inheritance of acquired traits is 'a doctrine used to account for the persistence of Christianity in the world and to deny the miraculous in that persistence that we turn to those peoples whose acquired traits through unknown ages have been filth of body, vileness of mind, cruelty in all its forms, until the last stage of human degradation and sin has been reached and men have made human flesh their greatest feast. We will go to the cannibal islands and coasts of the southern Pacific, some unvisited by foreigners till the man with the Bible came, others taught even hitherto unknown vilenesses by visit ing foreigners, but all distrustful of every other man and standing with the ever-ready hatchet to prepare another feast of human flesh.
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Affliction. 10: 2, 12: ...)
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Affliction. 10: 2, 12: 5; 14: 6; 18: 27; 25: 16; 35: 10; 37: 14; 72: 12, 74: 86. 1; 88. 15; 102: title; 109: 16, 22; 140: 12.
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The References to the Versions: By the British Revisers Compared With the Versions (Classic Reprint)
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Twice only is the Targum on Samuel and Kings referred to, but I have not considered it because of the utter uncertainty of its readings.
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Christ and the Old Testament: A Paper Read April 14, 1902, at the Request of the Presbyterian Ministers of Rochester (Classic Reprint)
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The main assertions of what is now called higher criticism against the Pentateuch and the Old Testament are nothing new. They are precisely the same that have been made by Spinoza, 1670, and by all the learned deists of the eighteenth century, and nowhere will they be found more fully and repeatedly stated than in Paine's Age of Reason, dedicated to the People of America in 179 3.
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Howard Osgood was born on January 4, 1831, on "Magnolia Plantation, " in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, the son of Isaac and Jane Rebecca (Hall) Osgood. His father was of New England ancestry, a nephew of Samuel Osgood. Although a wealthy planter, he became thoroughly dissatisfied with slavery and moved North, settling near New York City. Born and reared an Episcopalian, Howard Osgood joined the Baptist Church from conviction and at considerable personal cost.
Education
Entering Harvard College in 1846, Howard left in 1849, but nine years later was awarded the degree of A. B. He made an intensive study of the Germany theology.
Career
Ordained a Baptist minister, February 12, 1857, Howard Osgood served as pastor at Flushing, L. I, 1856-58, and of the North Baptist Church, New York City, 1860-1866. From 1868 to 1874 he was professor of Hebrew at Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania, acting also as librarian. It was at the Rochester Theological Seminary, however, that he made his record as a teacher. During 1875-1876 he served as acting professor of church history and for the next twenty-five years was librarian and professor of Old Testament interpretation. He was a member of the famous quintet - Strong, Osgood, Stevens, Pattison, and True - which for the last quarter of the nineteenth century was the pride of that seminary.
Howard was a chivalrous Southern gentleman given to hospitality. Master of five languages, devoted to archaeology, rigidly conservative, unwilling to grant any quarter to the historical method of investigation, he spoke and wrote in behalf of a very orthodox interpretation of the Old Testament. His Biblical point of view may be gathered from the following articles and booklets: The Old Testament, What It Is and What It Teaches (1879); Short Sketch of the Christology of the Old Testament (1880); Essays in Pentateuchal Criticism (1888); "Old Wine in New Wine Skins, " Bibliotheca Sacra (July 1893); contributions to Anti-higher Criticism (1894), edited by L. W. Munhall; "President Harper's Lectures, " Bibliotheca Sacra (April 1895).
The arguments now advanced by Fundamentalists were vigorously pressed by him. Because of his union with the Baptist denomination, he wrote on the form and significance of baptism. His Archaeology of Baptism contains much first-hand data. Since he regarded the Baptists and Anabaptists as intimately related, he formed at Rochester one of the best American collections of "Anabaptistica. " His Protestant Pedo-baptism and the Doctrine of a Church indicates how decisive his break with Anglicanism had been. Named as a member of the American commission for the revision of the Scriptures, his research in connection with the work of this office resulted in the publication, 1899, of a seventy-four page booklet on References to the Versions by British Revisers, a critical study of the accuracy of British scholarship.
Osgood’s most excellent work as translator is found in his "Introduction to the Three Middle Books of the Pentateuch" in the second volume of Philip Schaff's American edition of John E. Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. In addition to the publications referred to, Osgood was also the author of Grammar of the Hebrew Language for Beginners (1895); Old Testament Ethics; "The Oldest Book in the World, " Bibliotheca Sacra (1888); Quotations of the Old Testament (1880) and Topics in the Psalms. The last decade of his life although spent in retirement was occupied with diligent research and occasional lectures. He died at Rochester.