The Scientific Study Of The Old Testament
Subtitle: Its Principal Results, And Their Bearing Upon Religious Instruction
Publisher: London : Williams & Norgate; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1910
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 301
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preface vii; title: I. RESULTS BASED UPON THE EXCAVATIONS; title: Introduction: What do we mean by authentic results? 1; title: Degrees of certainty 2; title: 1. Assyrian-Babylonian parallels to the Biblical stories of antediluvian times ... 9; title: (a) Creation and Fall . . 10; title: (b) The Deluge 16; title: (c) The antediluvian patriarchs 19; title: 2. The Code of Hammurabi and the Mosaic law 25; title: (a) Significance of the Hammurabi Code 25; title: (b) Compared with that of Moses . . 28; title: (c) The formation of the Mosaic law (c/II. 1) 37; title: 3. Tell Amama^ Gezer, Taanach^ Megiddo, and the ancient Canaanitish civilisation and religion . . . . . 40; title: (a) The Amama discovery and its significance 41; title: (b) The excavations in Palestine . 43; title: (c) The civilisation and religion of ancient Canaan .... 50; title: II. RESULTS BASED UPON LITERARY CRITICISM; title: The legal literature (cf. L 2) . . . 60; title: (a) Nature and importance of Pentateuch criticism 6l; title: (b) A summary of its history; its principal schools . . . . 71; title: (c) Its abiding results and its future problems (the Deuteronomist the Priestly Code the Jahwist and the Elohist) 76; title: 2. Nature and method of Hebrew historical writings 92; title: (a) The older form of the so-called historical books 94; title: (b) Their present form .... 99; title: (c) Their historical value . 112; title: 3. The peculiarity of the prophetical books . 115; title: (a) The prophets as orators^ poets, and writers (c/: in. 4) . .116; title: (b) The present form of the prophetical books 121; title: 4. The ancient Hebrew lyric, especially psalmody 125; title: (a) Profane and religious lyrics . . 125; title: (b) Age and formation of the latter (David, composer of psalms ?) 128; title: (c) Exilic and post-exilic period: in-dividual or community . . .139; title: (d) Religious significance : universal character 142; title: III. RESULTS BASED UPON HISTORICAL (RELIGIOUS AND GENERAL) RESEARCH; title: 1. The so-called patriarchs . . .149; title: (a) Various interpretations of their history 149; title: (b) The historical facts . . .157; title: 2. Moses and the Israelites in Egypt . 1 64; title: (a) The desert tribes and the migration l64; title: (b) The figure of Moses . . 170; title: 3. Idea of God, religion^ and morality among the early Israelites 176; title: (a) Israel's relation to the Canaanites and its significance . .176; title: (b) The popular religion (influenced by Canaanitish customs) . . 179; title: (c) The true religion . . .187; title: (d) The moral standpoint of this period 193; title: 4. The great prophets of Israel {cf. II. 3) 200; title: (a) The moral and rehgious condition of Israel and its political relation to Assyria at the time of their appearance 202; title: (b) The ethical monotheism and its consequences . . .214; title: (c) The peculiarity of prophetic thought 221; title: (d) The ecstasy of the prophet and his relation to the object . . . 225; title: 5. Israel's hope for the future . .235; title: (a) Its contents (the idea of a Messiah) 239; title: (b) Its age and historical development . 242; title: APPENDIX: SOME OF THE DISCUSSIONS AT THE CLOSE OF THE LECTURES; title: On Li. (1) "Sacred legends"? ... 256; title: (2) The story of the Creation and natural science .... 262; title: (3) Application in the schools . 269; title: On I. 2. Hammurabi and Moses 274; title: On II. 1-4. (1) Babylonian and Biblical penitential psalms 277; title: (2) Literary criticism and revelation . 281; title: On III. 1-S. Application in the schools . . . 283; title: (a) Imperfect moral conceptions 284; title: (6) Subject-matter of uncertain historical value  289; title: Index 294; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Hammurabi and the Sun-God . Frontispiece; title: Massebahs at Gezer 32; title: Sacred Tree in Modem Palestine .... 40; title: A Section through the Hill of the Town of Lachis, in Palestine 44; title: The Great Rock Altar of Zorah (Sa^ra) ... 48; title: Section of the Town Wall of Megiddo ... 49; title: Small Images of Astarte from Gezer ... 52; title: Image of Astarte recovered from the Ruins of Gezer 53; title: Urn containing the Corpse of a Child immured in the Wall of the Northern Citadel of Megiddo . 55; title: Child's Grave in the Town Wall of Megiddo . 56; title: The Great Rock Altar of Zorah (Sa'ra) ... 56; title: Rock Altar at Megiddo with Cup-marks ... 57; title: The Stone of Marmita, showing the Cup-marks 58; title: Astarte from Taanach 64; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Letter of King Abdiehiba of Jerusalem to Amenophis IV. 64; title: Clay Tablet from Taanach 72; title: Small Bes Idol frx)m Taanach 72; title: A Specimen from the St Petersburg Manuscript of the Prophets, a.d. 91 6 (Hosea ui. 4) . . 77; title: The Great Altar of Baalbek 80; title: The Northern Block of the Rock Altar of Megiddo 88; title: Dolmen from the country east of the Jordan . 96; title: Image of the God Ramman (Hadad) from er-Runmaane 96; title: The Royal Seal of King Jeroboam of Israel 104