Job and Solomon; Or, The Wisdom of the Old Testament

About this eBook

Author

Cheyne, T. K. (Thomas Kelly), 1841-1915

Title

Job and Solomon: Or, The Wisdom of the Old Testament

Credits

Bryan Ness, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

BS: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: The Bible, Old and New Testament

Subject

Gnomic poetry, Hebrew

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 65866

Release Date

July 18, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WISDOM OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION. HOW IS OLD TESTAMENT CRITICISM RELATED TO CHRISTIANITY?
5. 5.THE BOOK OF JOB. — CHAPTER I. JOB’S CALAMITY; THE OPENING OF THE DIALOGUES. (CHAPS. I.-XIV.) — CHAPTER II. THE SECOND CYCLE OF SPEECHES. (CHAPS. XV.-XXI.) — CHAPTER III. THE THIRD CYCLE OF SPEECHES. (CHAPS. XXII.-XXXI.) — CHAPTER IV. THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU. (CHAPS. XXXII.-XXXVII.) — CHAPTER V. THE SPEECHES OF JEHOVAH. (CHAPS. XXXVIII.-XLII. 6.) — CHAPTER VI. THE EPILOGUE AND ITS MEANING. — CHAPTER VII. THE TRADITIONAL BASIS AND THE PURPOSE OF JOB. — I. Did Job really live? — 2. The Autobiographical Element in its Bearing on the Purpose of the Poem. — 3. The Purpose of Job as illustrated by Criticism. — CHAPTER VIII. DATE AND PLACE OF COMPOSITION. — CHAPTER IX. ARGUMENT FROM THE USE OF MYTHOLOGY. — CHAPTER X. ARGUMENT FROM THE DOCTRINE OF ANGELS. — CHAPTER XI. ARGUMENT FROM PARALLEL PASSAGES. — CHAPTER XII. ON THE DISPUTED PASSAGES IN THE DIALOGUE-PORTION, ESPECIALLY THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU. — CHAPTER XIII. IS JOB A HEBRÆO-ARABIC POEM? — CHAPTER XIV. THE BOOK FROM A RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW. — CHAPTER XV. THE BOOK OF JOB FROM A GENERAL AND WESTERN POINT OF VIEW. — NOTE ON JOB AND THE MODERN POETS. — NOTE ON THE TEXT OF JOB. — AIDS TO THE STUDENT.
6. 6.THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. — CHAPTER I. HEBREW WISDOM, ITS NATURE, SCOPE, AND IMPORTANCE. — CHAPTER II. THE FORM AND ORIGIN OF THE PROVERBS. — CHAPTER III. THE FIRST COLLECTION AND ITS APPENDICES. — CHAPTER IV. THE SECOND COLLECTION AND ITS APPENDICES. — CHAPTER V. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM. — CHAPTER VI. SUPPLEMENTARY ON QUESTIONS OF DATE AND ORIGIN. — CHAPTER VII. THE TEXT OF PROVERBS. — NOTE ON PROVERBS XXX. 31. — CHAPTER VIII. THE RELIGIOUS VALUE OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. — AIDS TO THE STUDENT.
7. 7.THE WISDOM OF JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH. — CHAPTER I. THE WISE MAN TURNED SCRIBE. SIRACH’S MORAL TEACHING. — CHAPTER II. SIRACH’S TEACHING ( continued ). HIS PLACE IN THE MOVEMENT OF THOUGHT. — AIDS TO THE STUDENT.
8. 8.THE BOOK OF KOHELETH; OR, ECCLESIASTES. — CHAPTER I. THE WISE MAN TURNED AUTHOR AND PHILOSOPHER. — CHAPTER II. ‘TRUTH AND FICTION’ IN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. — CHAPTER III. MORE MORALISING, INTERRUPTED BY PROVERBIAL MAXIMS. — CHAPTER IV. FACTS OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE. — CHAPTER V. THE WISE MAN’S PARTING COUNSELS. — CHAPTER VI. KOHELETH’S ‘PORTRAIT OF OLD AGE;’ THE EPILOGUE, ITS NATURE AND ORIGIN. — CHAPTER VII. ECCLESIASTES AND ITS CRITICS (FROM A PHILOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW). — CHAPTER VIII. ECCLESIASTES AND ITS CRITICS (FROM A LITERARY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW). — CHAPTER IX. ECCLESIASTES FROM A MORAL AND RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW. — CHAPTER X. DATE AND PLACE OF COMPOSITION. — CHAPTER XI. DOES KOHELETH CONTAIN GREEK WORDS OR IDEAS? — CHAPTER XII. TEXTUAL PROBLEMS OF KOHELETH. — I. — II. — CHAPTER XIII. THE CANONICITY OF ECCLESIASTES AND ECCLESIASTICUS. — I. — II.
9. 9.AIDS TO THE STUDENT
10. 10.APPENDIX IN WHICH VARIOUS POINTS IN THE BOOK ARE ILLUSTRATED OR MORE FULLY TREATED.
11. 11.INDEX.

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