595th ORDINAKY GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HAL 

 WESTMINSTEK, ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 17th, 1917, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



The Rev. Prebendary H. E. Fox, M.A., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Sbcretary announced the Election of the Rev. E. T. Siddall- 

 Jones as a Member of the Institute. 



The Chairman, in introducing the Lecturer, said that he was one 

 specially qualified to speak on the important subject which they had to 

 consider. Born in Palestine, Mr. Finn had been familiar with Oriental 

 languages almost from infancy, and had lisped Hebrew and Arabic. He 

 had devoted the years of his maturity to the special study of the 

 Pentateuch, and had just published a book on The Unity of the 

 Pentateuch of most instructive character. 



TUB MOSAIC ORIGIN OF THE PENTATEUCH, 

 By the Rev. A. H. Finn. 



IN a work recently published* my aim was chiefly negative, 

 namely, to meet the modern allegations that the Pentateuch 

 can be proved to be composite, and to show the unsound- 

 ness of the methods by which that conclusion has been reached. 



Now it is my wish to take a positive and constructive line ; 

 to consider the evidences which tend to show that the Pentateuch 

 is a single work of Mosaic origin. 



For the purposes of this paper, then, I must ask permission 

 to assume that the arguments of the former work are so far 

 valid that it will not be necessary to meet or consider the alleged 

 proofs of the modern critics. Laying these aside, it will be 

 my endeavour to set forth the considerations which would guide 

 us in forming an estimate of these five books when examined 

 fairly and without presupposition. 

 These will fall into three divisions : — 



I. Indications that the work is a Unity. 

 JI. Indications that it is of great Antiquity. 

 III. Indications that the author was Moses. 



The Unity of the Pentateuch, Marshall Bros. 



