These lectures are intended to lay before English readers, who cannot devote the time and thought needed for the study of larger and more technical works, the most important results of the criticism of the Pentateuch, and incidentally of ...

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John William Colenso (1814-83) was appointed the first Bishop of Natal in 1853 and settled there in 1855.