inspirations. Or, perhaps, it might seem more convenient to attach
the claim of a plenary inspiration to the last redactor of all;
but then we should probably have selected of all others the one
least able to bear the weight of such a claim. Think of making
the claim for a plenary inspiration of the Pentateuch in its
present form on the ground of the infallibility of that one of
the scribes who gave it its last touches some time subsequent to
the death of Ezra."

Remember that Dr. Gladden declares, on page 5, that he shall state
no conclusions as to the history of the sacred writings which will
not be accepted by conservative critics.

On page 54 Dr. Gladden quotes the following from Dr. Perowne:

The first _composition_ of the Pentateuch as a whole could not
have taken place till after the Israelites entered Canaan.

The whole work did not finally assume its present shape till
its revision was undertaken by Ezra after the return from the
Babylonish captivity.

On page 25 Dr. Gladden himself speaks as follows:

The common argument by which Christ is made a witness to the
authenticity and infallible authority of the Old Testament
runs as follows:

Christ quotes Moses as the author of this legislation; therefore
Moses must have written the whole Pentateuch. Moses was an