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“pilloried the book as a consummate example of the kind of iniquitous falsity which he insistedwas destroying American religious faith” (p. 230).Breasted said of himself, “I am a proud fellow, proud as Lucifer, and my pride and my will, willcarry me through almost anything” (p. 241).Frederic KenyonKenyon treated the Bible in a very naturalistic fashion, denying its divine inspiration andpreservation. He claimed that the Pentateuch was written by unknown authors and was not puttogether in its present form until the time of Ezra or even later (Our Bible and the AncientManuscripts, p. 32). He theorized that the author of the book of Acts was some unknowncompanion of Paul who edited Luke’s history by his own authority.Edward RobinsonThe son of a clergyman, Robinson came under the influence of Moses Stuart at AndoverSeminary. Stuart is called “the father of modern biblical study in America,” referring to the factthat he introduced German critical scholarship to the U.S. Stuart “had serious reservationsregarding the accepted doctrine of verbal inspiration” (Shifting Sands).William AlbrightThe “The Albright School” of archaeology is named after William Foxbright Albright.Thoughreputed to have been very conservative, it was quite liberal when viewed from a Bible-believingperspective.Albright was trained at Johns Hopkins University under Paul Haupt, who held the evolutionarydoctrine of the formation of the Old Testament. His view, known as pan-Babylonianism, heldthat the authors of the Bible were influenced by paganism. Haupt was a follower of JuliusWellhausen and held the documentary doctrine of the Pentateuch. He was a contributor to thePolychrome Bible, which was color-coded to identify the alleged source documents that werepieced together to form the first six books of the Bible.Albright eventually rejected Wellhausen’s position on the almost complete non-historicity of theOld Testament, but Albright also denied the divine inspiration of Scripture. His opposition toWellhausen’s work was “not with the purpose of supporting the Bible as the Word ofGod” (Shifting Sands).Albright claimed that “the theory of verbal inspiration--sometimes miscalled a doctrine--hasbeen proved erroneous” (The Archaeology of Palestine, 1954 edition, p. 128).91