[Stone, J.L.] Reply to Bishop Colenso's Attack upon the Pentateuch. By the Hebrew Wood Chopper.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Bell and Lampman

San Francisco

1863

FIRST EDITION.

Singerman 1802; S.G. Cogan, The Jews of San Francisco 1849-1919: An Annotated Bibliography, 210

John William Colenso (1814-1883), first Anglican bishop of Natal, South Africa, published a series of treatises on the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua, which scandalized the English public on account of their audacious Biblical criticism. The treatises, entitled Critical Examination of the Pentateuch, appeared between the years 1862-1879. Our author, Jacob Leon Stone, exposes the shoddy nature of Calenso's scholarship: "careless statements, slip-shod logic, and flimsy reasoning" (Preface, p. 5). The same year, Stone issued an anti-slavery tract: Slavery and the Bible; or slavery as seen in its punishment (San Francisco, 1863)