Evidences From Archaeology (2 of 6 notes)

Part Two
Bibliology: 10 BIBLE EVIDENCES- Continued
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Camden M. Cobern presents a wealth of archeological information in his book, The New Archeological Discoveries and Their Bearing Upon the New Testament. Keyser states that Dr. Cobern brings out the fact that between 1912 and the time of publication of his book, “over seventy discoveries in archeology go to prove the genuineness of the New Testament.’’² The well-known Egyptologist, Edouward Naville, who wrote the Introduction to Dr. Cobern’s book, makes an interesting comment, both on the value of Dr. Cobern’s work and on the methodology of destructive higher criticism.

We have to thank Dr. Cobern for having given us, with a great deal of learning, a vivid account of all these mines of scholarly research, which are still far from having been thoroughly worked. Especially their bearing upon the books of the Bible has not been adequately shown, the reason being that most Biblical scholars are still tied down to the methods of the destructive criticism. A book of Scripture is taken, a minute philological analysis is made of it, with often a great amount of scholarship, but this analysis necessarily leads to the discovery of apparent inconsistencies, of disconnections, of repetitions, which have been interpreted as showing the hands of different writers. The whole process has been one of disintegration of the books, resulting in the creation of a great number of authors, for the existence of whom no historical proofs whatever can be adduced.³

2            Leander S. Keyser, A System of Christian Evidences (Burlington, Iowa: The Lutheran Literary Board, 1945), p. 165, quoted from Camden M. Cobern.

3            Camden M. Cobern, The New Archeological Discoveries (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1928), p. xv.

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