An Introduction To The Book Of The Old And New Testament Vol 14 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from An Introduction to the Book of the Old and New Testament, Vol. 14 The second part of the Old Testament, the Apocrypha (see Section contains two classes of writings: 1. Those which were originally written in Greek; 2. Those which are Greek translations of Hebrew works. They formed an appendix to the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible the additions to Esther and Daniel were introduced in the proper places in the Greek translation of those books. For when, after the foundation of Alexandria in Egypt, many Jews settled in that city for commercial purposes, they, by degrees, forgot their mother tongue. They learned to speak Greek. Hence arose the necessity for a translation into Greek, of the Old Testament, which they could no longer read in Hebrew. This translation was used in the synagogues. Thus arose the Greek translation of the Old Testament, bearing the name of Septuagint (septuaginta), which, beyond a doubt, is the most ancient version of the older Scriptures. To this translation were sub joined the apocryphal books, which thus gradually came into use. The time of the origin of these apocryphal works falls in the centuries that immediately preceded the advent of Christ. Some of them, however, for example, Judith, are later than the public ministry of our Lord. (more exact statements are given under the several books of the Apo crypha.) Among the books of the New Testament, the letters of Paul take precedence in point of time. His apostolical labours and the tounda tion and instruction of Christian communities by him, gave him first, among all apostles, occasion for the composition of his letters. Of these we possess thirteen. The time of their origin begins about the middle of the first century of our era, that is, about from eighteen to twenty years after the Saviour's death. Reference to lost letters of Paul is made in these passages, namely, 1 Cor. V. 9, and Coloss. Iv. 16. Paul was followed by Peter, James, Jude, and John, letters from whose pens have been preserved to the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from An Introduction to the Book of the Old and New Testament, Vol. 14 This is a book of results. Its author professes to lay before his readers "the sure results" gained by theological criticism within the last half century. The report is made by one, who, though orthodox in religious belief, is a scholar of Gesenius and Dc Wette in theology. As a summary of these results, the book has been chosen and translated, since it will afford the assailants of the Bible in this country, reason to think that they have assumed too jubilant a tone, and since it will supply to its friends solid grounds for the conviction that their alarm has been undue. Let. those who suppose that the Bible has received fatal blows from German criticism here satisfy themselves how little impression has been thereby made on its substance. A writer of the Rationalistic school in theology has been preferred because such an one may be believed to report all the damage that the Scriptures have suffered from criticism, while one of conservative tendencies would have been open to suspicion. To what extent the results here set forth are "sure" in their negations, is, with the Translator, a point of secondary consequence. His main purpose has been to afford to the negative criticism of Germany an opportunity of allowing English students to judge how inconsiderable is the breach which it has been able to make in the walls of Zion. Some notes are added by the Translator, which may tend to prove that its assaults arc more numerous than its victories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from An Introduction to the Old Testament, Vol. 1 of 2 But to have done this at all satisfactorily would have entailed lengthened discussions which would have given the book a polemical aspect it was desired to avoid, and have swelled it to an inconvenient bulk. In a few cases where Bleek's decisions appeared most at variance with those of sober and conservative critics, references have been given to works where what is thought to be the sounder view is maintained. But, on the whole, the book has been left to stand on its own merits, and to speak for itself. Thus, it is believed, its real usefulness has been best consulted. The student will be furnished with the data on which Bleek's own conclusions have been based, but he will not be compelled to accept these conclusions as indubitable without further reflection. He may trust to the facts being, on the whole, fairly and impartially stated; but he must not be surprised if in some instances Bleek's deductions from the facts fail to commend themselves to his judgment. He will be careful to distinguish between the phenomena which Bleek brings so clearly before his notice and the explanations of the phenomena he gives. These explanations may be, and sometimes are, precarious, if not erroneous. These, however, which are rather errors of judgment than of principle, are not such as to affect materially the value of the work. Its general spirit or tendency, it is believed, cannot be otherwise than beneficial, or the translation would never have been attempted. Those who have hitherto been strangers to the controversies of the day, and have accepted, without doubt or question, the traditional views of the authorship and composition of the Books of the Old Testament, must be prepared to meet with much that is new, strange, and at first sight even startling, in Bleek's investigations and their results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament: With Analyses and Illustrative Literature Hebrew Bible, as best suited to our plan, because, while that order ignores the date of composition and formal contents, it harmonizes with an apparent design in the unfolding of ruling ideas. The Triple Division the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa - gives us three clearly defined ideas, viz.: The Law is the foun dation of the whole revelation, the special discipline by which a chosen race was trained from a savage wilful ness to the accomplishment of its divine work. The Prophets portray the struggles of the same people when they come into closer connection with the kingdoms of the world, and were led to look for the inward antitypes of the outward precepts. The Hagiographa carry the divine lesson yet further, and Show its working in the various phases of individual life, and in relation to the great problems of thought and feeling, which pre sent themselves by a necessary law in the later stages of civilization. Wescott, art. Canon, Smith's Bib. Dict. Vol. I. P. 359. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.