A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical Volume 7 - Couverture rigide
Présentation de l'éditeur
Commentary on the Historical Books of theO ld Testament, written during the period of the reconstruction of the theocracy after the return from ex ile. It contains: 1. THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOK OF CHRONICLES, by Dr. OTTO ZOCKLER, Professor in the Prussian University of Greifswald (1874), translated and edited by Professor JAMES G. MURPHY, LL.D ,of Belfast, who is already well known to the American public by his Com mentaries on Genesis, Exodus, and the Psalms. Professor Murphy has departed from the method of the other volumes by giving a literal translation of the text instead of the authorized version with emendations in brackets. 2. EZRA, by Dr FR. U. SCHTJLTZ, Professor in the University of Breslau (1876), trans lated and edited by Dr. CHARLES A. BRIGGS, Professor of Hebrew and the Cgnate Lan guages in the Union Theological Seminary, New York, who prepared in part the Commentary on the Psalms for ihis work. 3. NEHEMIAH, by Dr. HOWARD CROSBY, Chancellor of the University of New York. Dr. Crosby had finished his work in manuscript before the German Commentary of Dr. Schultz appeared (1876), but he has added a translation of the Homiletical sections from Schultz. 4. ESTHER, by Dr. SCHULTZ, translated and edited by Dr. JAMES STRONG, Professor of Exegetical Theology in Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J. Dr. STRONG- has translated the frequent Latin citations, added the Textual and Grammatical notes, enlarged the list of exegetical helps, and furnished an excursus on the Apocryphal additions toE sther, and another on the liturgical use of the book among the Jews. The remaining three of the twenty-four volumes of this Commentary are in the hands of the printer, and will be published at short intervals. PHILIP SCHAFF. BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK, December,
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