Practical Handbook For The Study Of The Bible And Of Bible Literature
Subtitle: including Biblical Geography, Antiquities, introduction to the Old and the New Testament, and Hermeneutics
Publisher: Joseph F. Wagner
Published: 1911
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Editorial Preface v; title: FIRST PART; title: THE HOLY LAND; title: GEOGRAPHY; title: Introduction 3; title: 1. Situation of Palestine 4; title: 2. Extent 6; title: 3. Names 6; title: 4. Climate 8; title: 5. Configuration 9; title: 6. Natural Products 11; title: 7. Plagues of Common Occurrence 14; title: 8. Dwellings, Food, and Clothing 15; title: 9. Inhabitants Before the Israelites 19; title: 10. Palestine as Divided among the Israelites 21; title: II. Descriptions of Places; title: I. Judea 22; title: II. Samaria 30; title: III. Galilee 31; title: IV. The Country East of the Jordan 32; title: SECOND PART; title: THE HOLY PEOPLE; title: BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY; title: A. Outlines of the History of Israel; title: 1. Traditional and Modern Accounts of the History of Israel 37; title: 2. Results of the Modern Account 41; title: 3. General Refutation 42; title: 4. Refutation from the Old Testament 45; title: 5. Refutation from the Samaritan Pentateuch 52; title: 6. Refutation from Oriental Records 55; title: B. God, and the Gods, in Israel; title: 1. Monotheism and Polytheism 56; title: 2. Worship of the Stars 58; title: 3. Worship of Images 59; title: 4. Chanaanite Deities 60; title: 5. Assyrian and Babylonian Deities 63; title: 6. Egyptian Deities 65; title: C. The Religious Institutions of Israel; title: Sources of Information 66; title: FIRST SECTION; title: HOLY PLACES; title: I. THE TABERNACLE; title: 1. General Description 69; title: 2. The Court of the Tabernacle 72; title: The Sacred Furniture and Utensils; title: 3. Furniture in the Court of the Tabernacle 74; title: 4. Furniture in the Holy Place 75; title: 5. The Holy of Holies 78; title: II. THE TEMPLE; title: (a) Solomon's Temple; title: 6. Introductory SO; title: 7. The House of the Temple 81; title: 8. The Courts of the Temple 83; title: 9. Furniture of the Temple 84; title: (b) The Second Temple; title: 10. Zorobabel's Temple 85; title: 11. Herod's Temple 87; title: 12. The Synagogues 89; title: SECOND SECTION; title: HOLY PERSONS; title: 13. Introductory 90; title: 14. The Levites 91; title: 15. The Priests 91; title: 16. The High Priest 96; title: 17. Consecration of Priests 99; title: The Mosaic Origin of the Priesthood 101; title: Appendix. The Synedrium and the Jewish Sects 103; title: THIRD SECTION; title: SACRED RITUAL; title: I. SACRIFICES; title: 18. What could be Offered 106; title: 19. Ritual of Sacrifice 107; title: 20. Varieties of Sacrifice 109; title: (a) Bloody Sacrifices; title: 21. Holocausts, or Burnt Offerings 109; title: 22. Peace Offerings 110; title: 23. Sin Offerings 112; title: 24. Trespass Offerings 113; title: 25. Special Kinds of Bloody Sacrifices 115; title: (b) Unbloody Sacrifices; title: 26. Meat Offerings 117; title: 27. Drink Offerings 118; title: 28. Jealousy Offerings 119; title: 29. The Temple Taxes 119; title: II. PURIFICATIONS AND OTHER RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES; title: 30. Legal Defilement 121; title: 31. The Defilement of Death 121; title: 32. Uncleanness Due to Leprosy 122; title: 33. Sexual Uncleanness 12S; title: 34. Marriage Laws 124; title: 35. Circumcision 127; title: 36. Reception of Proselytes 130; title: 37. Laws Concerning Food 131; title: 38. Fasting 133; title: 39. Prayer 134; title: 40. Music and Singing 134; title: 41. Bearings 137; title: 42. Vows and Curses 137; title: FOURTH SECTION; title: SACRED SEASONS; title: 43. The Calendar 18B; title: 44. Daily Worship in the Temple 141; title: 45. The Sabbath 141; title: 46. The New Moons 144; title: 47. The Sabbatical Year 144; title: 48. The Year of Jubilee 145; title: 49. The Pesch 146; title: 50. Pentecost 148; title: 51. The Day of Atonement 160; title: 52. The Feast of Tabernacles 168; title: 53. Festivals Instituted after the Captivity 164; title: THIRD PART; title: HOLY SCRIPTURE; title: DECREES OF THE HOLY SEE RELATING TO HOLY SCRIPTURE; title: Encyclical of Pope on the Biblical Question 159; title: Syllabus of Errors 179; title: Pius X on the Decisions of the Biblical Commission, etc 184; title: INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE; title: 1. General Principles. Historical Survey 187; title: 2. Arrangement of an Introduction to the Bible 189; title: FIRST PART; title: ORIGIN OF HOLY SCRIPTURE, OR HOLY SCRIPTURE AS THE WORD OF GOD; title: 3. General Survey 190; title: INSPIRATION; title: 4. Teaching of the Church on the Subject of Inspiration 180; title: 5. What is Meant by Inspiration 192; title: THE CANON OF HOLY SCRIPTURE; title: 6. Meaning of the Expression 196; title: 7. Old med New Testaments 196; title: 8. Formation of the Old Testament Canon 196; title: 9. Contents of the Old Testament Canon 196; title: 10. Continuation 200; title: 11. Origin of the Canon of the New Testament 202; title: 12. Contents of the New Testament Canon 206; title: 13. The New Testament Canon of the Earliest Chorohes 206; title: 14. Ecclesiastical Decisions 207; title: Appendix. Protestant Opinions Regarding the Canon 207; title: 16. Apocryphal Books 206; title: SECOND PART; title: GENERAL INTRODUCTION. THE BIBLE AS A WHOLE; title: 16. Transition 212; title: THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF HOLY SCRIPTURE; title: 17. Biblical Languages in General 212; title: 18. Hebrew 213; title: 19. Chaldee 214; title: 20. Greek 215; title: 21. Original Form of the Hebrew and Chaldee Texts 216; title: 22. Later Forms of the Hebrew and Chaldee Texts 217; title: 23. The Masora 220; title: 21. Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Editions 222; title: 25. Value of the Masoretic Text 225; title: 26. The Original Text of the Greek Books of the Bible 226; title: 27. The Greek Manuscripts 227; title: 28. The Most Important Greek Manuscripts 228; title: 29. Greek Printed Editions 231; title: TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE; title: 30. General Remarks 235; title: 31. The Septuagint 235; title: 32. Other Greek Translations 238; title: 33. Later History of the Septuagint. Origen 240; title: 34. Chaldee Translations (Targumim) 242; title: 35. Samaritan Translation of the Pentateuch 244; title: 36. Syriac Translations 244; title: 37. Latin Translations. Itala and Vulgate 247; title: 38. Continuation. The Vulgate In the Middle Ages 252; title: 39. Continuation. The Council of Trent 263; title: THIRD PART; title: SPECIAL INTRODUCTION. THE SACRED BOOKS CONSIDERED SINGLY; title: The Books of the Old Testament; title: 1. Surrey and Classification 257; title: FIRST SECTION; title: 2. The Pentateuch. History, Criticism, Objections, Defense 258; title: SECOND SECTION; title: From the Entrance of the Israelites into Chanaan to the Division of the Kingdom; title: 3. Surrey 275; title: 4. Josue 275; title: 5. Judges 277; title: 6. Ruth 279; title: 7. The Books of Samuel, or First and Second Books of Kings 280; title: 8. Old Testament Poetry 282; title: 9. The Psalter 284; title: 10. Proverbs 291; title: 11. Canticle of Canticles 294; title: 12. Ecclesiastes 297; title: 13. The Book of Job 298; title: THIRD SECTION; title: From the Division of the Kingdoms until the End of the Captivity; title: 14. Historical Survey 302; title: 15. Prophecy in General 304; title: 16. Jonas 307; title: 17. Amos 309; title: 18. Joel 310; title: 19. Abdies 812; title: 20. Onee 313; title: 21. Micheas 314; title: 22. Imias 315; title: 23. Nahum 318; title: 24. Sophoniae 319; title: 25. Habakuk 320; title: 26. Jeremias 322; title: 27. The Book of Lamentations 326; title: 28. Baruch 326; title: 29. Eschiel 828; title: 30. Denial 330; title: FOURTH SECTION; title: From the Captivity to the Close of the Old Testament Revelation; title: 31. Historical Survey 333; title: 32. Kings. (Third and Fourth Book of Kings) 334; title: 33. Chronicles or Paralipomena 336; title: 34. Edrae and Nehernias 338; title: 35. Esther 340; title: 36. Tobias 342; title: 37. Judith 344; title: 38. The Books of Machabees 346; title: 39. Aggous 348; title: 40. Zecharias 349; title: 41. Malachias 360; title: 42. Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 362; title: 43. Wisdom 355; title: THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT; title: 1. Classification 358; title: FIRST SECTION; title: 2. The Gospels in General 358; title: 2-9. St. Matthew 366; title: 10-15. St. Mark 374; title: 16-20. St. Luke 383; title: 21. Synoptic Writers 390; title: 22-26. St. John 391; title: 27-31. The Acts of the Apostles 399; title: SECOND SECTION; title: 32-36. St. Paul the Apostle 404; title: 37. The Epistle to the Romans 412; title: 38-39. The Epistle to the Corinthians 415; title: 40. The Epistle to the Galatians 418; title: 41. The Epistle to the Ephesians 420; title: 42. The Epistle to the Philippians 422; title: 43. The Epistle to the Colossians 423; title: 44-45. The Epistles to the Thessalonians 424; title: 46-47. The Epistles to Timothy 427; title: 48. The Epistle to Titus 429; title: 48. The Epistle to Philemon 431; title: 50. The Epistle to the Hebrews 431; title: 51. The Catholic Epistles 434; title: 52. The Epistle of St. James 434; title: 53. The Two Epistles of St. Peter 436; title: 54. The Three Epistles of St. John 439; title: 55. The Epistle of St. Jude the Apostle 442; title: THIRD SECTION; title: 66. The Apocalypse 444; title: FOURTH PART; title: INTERPRETATION OF HOLY SCRIPTURE (HERMENEUTICS); title: 1. Introduction 449; title: FIRST SECTION; title: THE MEANING OF HOLY SCRIPTURE; title: 2. The Meaning in General of Holy Scripture 460; title: 3. The Application of the Literal and Mystical Meaning 453; title: 4. Of Accommodation 457; title: SECOND SECTION; title: OF DISCOVERING THE MEANING OF HOLY SCRIPTURE (HEURISTICS); title: 5. Principles laid down by the Church 458; title: 6. Hermeneutical Rules Based on the Peculiar Character of the Bible 462; title: THIRD SECTION; title: EXPLANATIONS OF THE TEXT; title: 7. Paraphrases 466; title: 8. Scholia 467; title: 9. Glosses 468; title: 10. Commentaries 470; title: 11. Study and Reading of the Bible 472; title: Exegetical Bibliography 473; title: Works to which Reference has been Made 475; title: Conclusion 479; title: INDEX OF SUBJECTS 483; title: MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS; title: The Temple at the Time of Christ Frontispiece; title: Chanaan as Divided among the Twelve Tribes 20; title: Ancient Jerusalem 22; title: Environs of Jerusalem 26; title: Journeyings of the Children of Israel 38; title: The Tabernacle 69; title: Palestine In the Time of Christ 370; title: The Journeys of St. Paul 406