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The Problem of the Old Testament

The Problem of the Old Testament

James Orr, The Problem of the Old Testament (1906)

James Orr

A Scottish answer to the German scheme that does not dispute the results one at a time, because there are ten thousand of them.

Catch rate
Not found in the wild
Base research
206
Stat total
344

Base stats

Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.

Stamina88
Contend86
Defend92
Popularity78
Total344

Cited for this book

Orr taught in Glasgow, wrote for The Fundamentals, and went at the critical case where it is weakest — not its readings but its assumption. The developmental ladder was imported from comparative religion and never argued for from the text, and a theory that redates its evidence whenever the evidence disagrees is not being tested by anything.

Moves learned

By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.

LvMoveTypeCat.PwrAccPP
1Chapter…BibleScripture12
44The Text RefusesBiblical TheologyArgument88100%12
46Random VerseBibleArgument10100%30
48The Scheme, Not the TextPresuppositionArgument100100%8
52Ruled Out in AdvancePresuppositionArgument10495%8
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