Catalogue of Books
Ewald: Die Dichter des alien Bundes, 1835-9. Translated in part
1880-2. George Gilfillan: The Bards of the Bible, 1850 and many later
editions. Isaac Taylor: Spirit of Hebrew Poetry, 1 861. R. G. Moulton: The Literary Study of the Bible, 1896.
E. Kautzsch: Die Poesie und die poetischen Biicher des alten Testaments, 1902. A. R. Gordon: The Poets of the Old Testament, 1912.
G. Buchanan Gray: The Forms of Hebrew Poetry, 1915.
S. R. Driver: Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament:
Discussion of Hebrew Poetry at the beginning of the chapter
on The Psalms. Article by Budde on Hebrew Poetry in Hastings’ Dictionary of
the Bible, vol. iv. Article on Poetical Literature in Encyclopedia Biblica, vol. iii.
F. C. Eiselen, Ch. i., Hebrew Poetry in the Psalms and other Sacred
Writings (1918). H. Gunkel in Die orientalischen Literaturen.
Principal Sir Georce Adam Smith: The Early Poetry of Israel in its Physical and Social Origins, 1910.
Commentaries by Hupfeld, 1853-61 (2nd ed. edited by Riehm, 1867-71; 3rd ed. by Nowack, 1898), Delitzsch, Perow ne, Chiyne, Kirkpatrick (Cambridge Bible), W. T. Davison and T. W. Davies (Century Bible), Maclaren (Expositor’s Bible), Briggs (International Critical Commentary), Bathgen,
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James Robertson: The Poetry and the Religion of the Psalms.
W. T. Davison: The Praises of Israel.
W. G. Jordan: Religion in Song, Studies in the Psalter {Humanism
of the Bible series). W. Binnie: The Psalms, their Origin, Teachings and Use. R. E. Prothero: The Psalms in Human Life.
CHAPTER IV
Commentaries by Lour, Cheyne (Pulpit Commentary), Streane (Cambridge Bible), Peake (Century Bible).
Translation in M’Fadyen’s Messages of the Psalmists, {Messages of the Bible), and Wisdom Books in Modern Speech. Translations of most of the book will be found in A. R. Gordon’s Poets of the Old Testament (pp. 79-96); and of chapters ii. and iv., in Sir Georce Adam Smith’s Jerusalem, vol. ii., pp. 274-283.
CHAPTER V
Commentaries by Delitzsch, Strack, Wildeboer, Toy (International Critical Commentary series), Perowne (Cambridge Bible), Horton (Expositor’s Bible), Currie Martin (Century Bible).
W. T. Davison: The Wisdom Literature of the Hebrews.
Bibliography
. B. Davidson: The Wisdom of the Hebrews (in Biblical and
Literary Essays). V. Arnot: Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth. T. K. Cheyne: Job and Solomon. V. A. L. Klmslie: Studies in Life from Jewish Proverbs (Humanism
of the Bible scries). C. F. Kent: The Wise Men of Ancient Israel and their Proverbs.
CHAPTER VI
Commentaries by Delitzsch, Siegfried, Ginsburg, Barton (International Critical Commentary), Cox (Expositor’s Bible), Plumptre (Cambridge Bible), Currie Martin (Century Bible).
Cheyne and Davison as in preceding chapter.
T. C. Finlayson: Meditations and Maxims of Koheleth.
Genung: Eeclesiastes and Omar Khayyam.
CHAPTER VII
Commentaries by Herrmann, Nowack, C. H. H. Wright, Cox, Thatcher (Century Bible), R. A. Watson (Expositor’s Bible), G. A. Cooke (Cambridge Bible).
Armstrong Black: Ruth, a Hebrew Idyl.
CHAPTER VIII
Commentaries by Dillmann, Budde, Duhm, Cox, A. B. Davidson (Cambridge Bible), A. S. Peake (Century Bible), J. Strahan.
E. J. Dillon: Sceptics of the Old Testament.
J. E. McFadyen: The Problem of Pain — A Study in the Book of Job {Humanism of the Bible series).
C. F. Aked: The Divine Drama of Job (Short Course series).
Essays on Job by Froude, Mozley, Godet, E. Caird, A. M. Fairbairn.
CHAPTER IX
Commentaries by Budde, Siecfried, Ginsburg, A. Harper (Cambridge Bible), G. Currie Martin (Century Bible), Adeney (Expositor’s Bible).
D. R. Scott: Pessimism and Love in Ecclesiastcs and the Song of Songs {Humanism of the Bible leries)
CHAPTER X
Articles in works on Hebrew Archaeology, such as those of Riehm,
Benzinger, Nowack. Sir John Stainer: The Music of the Bible. J. Weiss: Die musikalischen Instrumente in den heiligen Schriften
des alten Testaments.
The translation in the Revised Version or in the American Standard Version is, in these poetical parts of Scripture, an immense improvement on that in the Authorised Version. A profusion of suggested changes — many of them excellent — will be found in The Holy Bible with Various Renderings and Readings, where the Old Testament part is early work of Professors Cheyne and Driver. In the Kautzsch-Weizsiicker Bibel the translations are by various hands — some of them skilful — and Professor McFadyen has undertaken singlehanded the praiseworthy task of doing for the Old Testament what Weymouth and Moffatt have done for the New; the Psalms nd the Wisdom Books, translated by him, being already published as The Psalms and The Wisdom Books in Modern Speech. Translations by Renan, Duhm and Sir George Adam Smith «re, when available, worthy of special attention.
The articles on the various books in the Bible Dictionaries (Imperial, Hastings’, Schaff-Hauck, Biblica), as well as the chapters in the works on Introduction (Cornill, Wildeboer, Konig, Driver, McFadyen, Gray, Book by Book) are frequently of high value.