Calendar: 1868-1869 Page 471

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT 473 IV -JntroBuction to Ιϊί CeStanunt Point out the difference between the early history of Israel and other nations and show how this difference affects antece- dently considerations as to the authorship of the Pentateuch State as fully as you can the direct internal evidence on the subject of authorship In what points does Deuteronomy imply previously existing law What passages in Exodus and Num- hers are directly ascribed to Moses Show that Deuteronomy is not the work of either forger or romancer Show the bearing of remarkable prophecy in the Book on this subject There are six principal considerations from the internal evidence tending to show indirectly who the Deuteronomist was specify these in brief What facts prove that the writer of Deuteronomy was well acquainted with Egypt Show that the period of Deuteronomy was that of the Exodus In proof of Moses being the lawgiver of the Pentateuch we find that the laws bear the impress of the Desert that they are full of Egyptian memories and that the posses- sion of Canaan was yet future Illustrate each of these points Show that the historian of the Pentateuch was well ac- quainted with Egypt and with the Arabian Desert but not personally acquainted with Canaan Show also that he was master of the minute details of the Exodus and wrote in the last year of it Show that those for whom the Pentateuch was written knew Egypt and the Desert but not Canaan 10 Show that the historian and the lawgiver are one V-Rtbrtfa Translate Gen xvi 4-16 Explain all the more difficult forms Translate Gen xvii 15-21 Illustrate the construction in ver 20