Author's Bias | Interpretation: conservative

British and American Critics

German criticism of the Pentateuch influenced both British and American academic theologians in the latter part of the nineteenth century. S. Davidson (1862), C. Briggs of Union Theological Seminary in New York (1883-86), and S. R. Driver of Oxford (1891) published works that supported and advocated the Documentary Hypothesis.

Driver, from Great Britain, was perhaps the most influential scholar of the time, and his collaborative work, The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (1906), is a reference still used today.

In contrast to their German counterparts, British and North American critics believed in the inspiration of the Bible.

However, their work in the Documentary Hypothesis demonstrated that they did not hold entirely to the idea that It was a direct revelation from God.

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