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Book - Hebrew Wood Chopper, The [Stone, Jacob Leon]: REPLY TO BISHOP COLENSO'S ATTACK UPON THE PENTATEUCH. BY THE HEBREW WOOD CHOPPER. San Francisco: Bell & Lampman, 1863. Bishop Colenso's work is an amalgam of "blunders of the grossest description" but is nevertheless "important and dangerous" for its "attack upon the veracity of the Bible," particularly because the source of the assault is "a high dignitary in the Christian Church." Thus the Hebrew Wood Chopper defends the Pentateuch against Bishop Colenso's calumnies. He uses the remarkable, sudden, and unpredicted growth of California in the preceding fifteen years to refute Colenso's attack on the Pentateuch for implausible chronology. FIRST EDITION. 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. The same year, Stone issued an anti-slavery tract: Slavery and the Bible; or slavery as seen in its punishment (San Francisco, 1863)

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