Updated American Standard Version
Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Higher criticism is speculative, biased, and deeply flawed—its assumptions deny inspiration and its theories contradict archaeological and textual evidence.
William Foxwell Albright, the son of missionary parents, eagerly pursued his college education as a young man of faith. Finally, he received the coveted Ph.D.—but at a significant cost. His faith had been destroyed by the 19th-century German school of higher criticism. The leading exponents of this school of higher criticism, Julius Wellhausen and Franz Delitzsch, were out to prove that the Old Testament history of the Bible was mere fiction. Why?
