Conservative Scholarship

     This book is the outgrowth of a course which the author taught for a number of years in the Columbia Bible College, Columbia, S. C. It was felt at the time he was teaching this course that there was need for a solid presentation of the conservative side of Biblical criticism. The most cursory acquaintance with literature being published today on the Bible will reveal the sad fact that the vast majority of such works are written by scholars who have accepted the modern approach to the Bible. Conservatives have been criticized for being unproductive in critical scholarship. And such is really the case. The present volume is an attempt to supply a need on the conservative side.

      . . . To all such we would suggest the thought that, if conservatives are to meet attacks on the Bible from critical circles, they must deal with these attacks on approximately the same level of scholarship.

     The present volume is naturally a defense of what is now known as the conservative (which is often generally equated with the traditional or historic) view of the Bible. The author is thoroughly persuaded that this position is defensible—in fact, that it is the only view that will stand up under the scrutiny of historical research and investigation.

     It is not likely, therefore, that the statements and conclusions put forth in this book will be acceptable to those who belong to what is called the liberal or modern school of Biblical criticism.

(Wick Broomall, Biblical Criticism, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1957; From Preface)