Add to these facts that the original Hebrew had no vowels, that many
of the sacred books were written without vowels, and that the vowels
were added long after; and remember that, as Dr. Aked says, the oldest
Hebrew Bible in existence belongs to the tenth century after Christ,
and it will begin to appear that the claim for biblical infallibility
is utterly absurd.

But I must not offer these statements on my own authority. Let us
return to Dr. Gladden. On page 11 of _Who Wrote the Bible?_ I find
the following:

The first of these holy books of the Jews was, then, The Law,
contained in the first five books of our Bible, known among us
as the Pentateuch, and called by the Jews sometimes simply
"The Law," and sometimes "The Law of Moses." This was supposed
to be the oldest portion of their Scriptures, and was by them
regarded as much more sacred and authoritative than any other
portion. To Moses, they said, God spake face to face; to the
other holy men much less distinctly. Consequently, their appeal
is most often to the Law of Moses.

The sacredness of the five books of "The Law," then, rests upon the
belief that they were written by Moses, who had spoken face to face
with God.

So that if Moses did not write those books, their sacredness is a
myth. Now, on page 42, Dr. Gladden says:

1. The Pentateuch could never have been written by any one
man, inspired or otherwise.