ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended for use in Jewish homes. There are many parents who are unwilling to place the Bible, pur et simple, in the hands of their children. Some laws of the Pentateuch seem to them temporary and obsolescent, others permanent and abiding. Though they may not have read a single book on Biblical criticism or theology, they know that the great scholars of to-day think very differently about the age and authorship of the books of the Bible from what was thought about them by their own teachers or parents. Plato’s ‘outlines of theology’ have not yet lost their validity or power. ‘God is good and God is true’: from these canons or standards of moral and religious assessment people must never consciously swerve. Joshua and Judges are entirely omitted; tales of bloodshed and slaughter, unredeemed by moral teaching, yet set too often in a pseudo-religious framework, are very unsuitable in a Bible for Home Reading.
