An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures: Volume 1, A Summary of the Evidence for the Genuineness, Authenticity, Uncorrupted Preservation, and Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures

Reissued in five parts, this is the revised four-volume tenth edition (1856) of an influential work of biblical scholarship.

Thomas Hartwell Horne (Author), Samuel Davidson (Author), Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (Author)

9781108067720, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 November 2013

654 pages, 2 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm, 0.94 kg

A painstaking compiler of catalogues and indexes, the biblical scholar and bibliographer Thomas Hartwell Horne (1780–1862) first published his most famous work in 1818, having begun his research for it many years earlier in 1801. Reissued here in five parts is the expanded four-volume tenth edition of 1856, which includes revisions by the scholars Samuel Davidson (c.1806–98) and Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (1813–75). A standard text in scriptural teaching for generations of Anglicans, this monumental and influential work of nineteenth-century biblical scholarship remains a valuable resource for modern researchers, reflecting the methods and perspectives of its era. Volume 1 addresses the authenticity and authority of the Old and New Testaments. Horne discusses the role of miracles and prophesy, and argues for the superiority of Christianity over other religions.

Preface
1. On the possibility, probability, and necessity of a divine revelation
2. On the genuineness and authenticity of the Old Testament
3. On the credibility of the Old and New Testaments
4. The divine authority of the scriptures
5. Internal evidences of the inspiration of the scriptures
6. Recapitulation of the evidences for the truth and divine authority of the scriptures
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG]