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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Literature of the Old Testament - -Author: George Foot Moore - -Release Date: July 8, 2012 [EBook #40173] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITERATURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT *** - - - - -Produced by Delphine Lettau, Julia Neufeld and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40173 ***</div> <p class="center"> HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY<br /> @@ -337,7 +298,7 @@ of the new dispensation, or, as they called it, the "new covenant," from the Scriptures of the "old covenant" (2 Cor. iii. 6, 14), the Bible of the Jews. The Greek word for -covenant (<i>diathk</i>) was rendered in the early +covenant (<i>diathéké</i>) was rendered in the early Latin translation by <i>testamentum</i>, and the two bodies of Scripture themselves were called the Old Testament and the New Testament @@ -1437,7 +1398,7 @@ only after the call of Moses (Exod. iii. 14 ff.), and for the patriarchal period employs only the appellative, God.</p> -<p>The conception of deity is less nave than in +<p>The conception of deity is less naïve than in J: God never appears in tangible bodiliness like a man, but reveals himself in visions or dreams, or makes known his will by a voice @@ -1571,7 +1532,7 @@ origin, but no parallels to them have as yet been discovered, nor does internal evidence point that way.</p> -<p>The scenery in the Garden in Eden is nave +<p>The scenery in the Garden in Eden is naïve enough, but the problem of the myth is one which has exercised the minds of men through all time: Why is man mortal? or, as it is @@ -2026,7 +1987,7 @@ ventured to affirm, and with allowance for later additions—regard the Priests' Code as such a law book, compiled and edited by priestly scribes in Babylonia, brought to -Juda by Ezra, with the authority of the +Judæa by Ezra, with the authority of the Persian king, to reform the many disorders that existed there, and ratified and put in force in <small>B.C.</small> 444 by the magnates and the @@ -2345,7 +2306,7 @@ it, and can, indeed, ignore the fact that there ever had been other sanctuaries of Jehovah. Such a state of things never existed while the kingdom stood; it was only in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span> -Persian period, when Juda was reduced to +Persian period, when Judæa was reduced to a circle of a few miles about Jerusalem, that the conditions implied in P arose. Only in that age, through political circumstances, @@ -2519,12 +2480,12 @@ reflects the teaching of the prophets, particularly of Hosea.</p> <p>These two histories—the one, as we have -seen, Judan, the other Israelite—ran so +seen, Judæan, the other Israelite—ran so nearly parallel and contained so much matter in common that an attempt to combine them in one continuous narrative was natural. The task was accomplished with considerable skill, -by a Judan historian in the seventh century, +by a Judæan historian in the seventh century, who probably introduced variants or supplementary matter from other sources. The author's own hand is most certainly recognized @@ -2818,7 +2779,7 @@ parts of it, is visible in many places in Joshua.</p> <p>The Book of Joshua closes with a farewell address by Joshua to the tribes of Israel assembled at Shechem, in which, after a brief -rsum of God's dealing with their fathers +résumé of God's dealing with their fathers from the calling of Abraham, the exodus, and their own more recent experiences down to the present, he exhorts them to put away @@ -3035,7 +2996,7 @@ property of the nation, and more than one writer made collections of them. As in the patriarchal legends, two strands may be distinguished, which have such affinities with -the Judan and the Israelite histories in the +the Judæan and the Israelite histories in the Hexateuch respectively that they are naturally regarded as the continuations of J and E. To J may be probably attributed the story of @@ -3114,7 +3075,7 @@ remnant of the most historical, and presumably the oldest, account of the establishment of the tribes in western Palestine. That, in completer form, it had originally a place in the -Judan history (J) is unquestioned, and in +Judæan history (J) is unquestioned, and in that work it may have been closely followed by stories of exploits such as those of Ehud, Barak, Gideon. Inasmuch as it contradicted @@ -3232,7 +3193,7 @@ and two of Kings. First Samuel shows how the conquest and occupation of central Palestine by the Philistines led to the establishment of a national kingdom under Saul, a Benjamite; -narrates the rise of his rival, the Judan +narrates the rise of his rival, the Judæan David, and the feud between them, down to the disastrous battle with the Philistines at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span> Mt. Gilboa in which Saul and his gallant sons @@ -3380,7 +3341,7 @@ historiography.</p> source in the history of David is unsurpassed. It has in perfection all the qualities that distinguish the best Hebrew prose such as -are conspicuous in the Judan author of the +are conspicuous in the Judæan author of the patriarchal stories in Genesis. In the art of narrative Herodotus himself could do no better.</p> @@ -3501,7 +3462,7 @@ four hundred years) of total ignorance; beyond that lies the patriarchal story, the realm of pure legend.</p> -<p>Out of such materials Judan authors in +<p>Out of such materials Judæan authors in the tenth and following centuries constructed the history of their people from the remotest antiquity, and, as commonly happens with @@ -3521,7 +3482,7 @@ is through the whole so noteworthy a congruity of conception and sameness of excellence in style that it is not inappropriate to use for it the one symbol J in the sense of the oldest -Judan history.</p> +Judæan history.</p> @@ -3967,7 +3928,7 @@ Kings.</p> <p>The attempt of Jehu to exterminate the dynasty of Omri, involving the slaughter of -the Judan princes, had the unintended result +the Judæan princes, had the unintended result of enabling the queen mother, Athaliah, a daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, to seize the throne. The revolution, planned by the chief @@ -3976,7 +3937,7 @@ usurper and brought the true heir, the seven-year-old Joash, to his own, is told in 2 Kings xi. 1-20; a somewhat minute account of the restoration of the temple in his reign follows -in c. xii. 4-16, both from a good Judan +in c. xii. 4-16, both from a good Judæan source, perhaps ultimately a temple chronicle. The author of Kings has his usual formulas, including the tolerated high places, in c. @@ -4119,7 +4080,7 @@ product of the long and obscure process which we have attempted to outline in the preceding chapters, were adjusted and connected so as to make a continuous history from the creation -to the fall of the Judan state, can be fixed +to the fall of the Judæan state, can be fixed only by the fact that the author of Chronicles (about 300 <small>B.C.</small> or somewhat later; see below) seems to have read these books in the @@ -4238,7 +4199,7 @@ neighbourhood of the ark is holy. Solomon's press-gangs were one of the greatest grievances of the tribes; the author of Chronicles takes pains to aver that Solomon raised his -corve from the remnants of the Hittites and +corvée from the remnants of the Hittites and other heathen; no Israelites were put to such<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span> work. In Kings we read that Solomon ceded twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram, king of @@ -4756,10 +4717,10 @@ managed; the stiffnecked Jew refuses homage to the proud vizier, who schemes a generous revenge. Esther ventures her life for her people by intruding into the audience -chamber, but the <i>dnouement</i> is artfully +chamber, but the <i>dénouement</i> is artfully retarded—instead of a pathetic plea for the imperilled Jews, an invitation for the king<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></span> -and his prime minister to a <i>petit dner</i> in the +and his prime minister to a <i>petit dîner</i> in the queen's apartments! At the banquet the king offers Esther her wish, but again the issue is postponed. Haman, in his elation at @@ -4809,11 +4770,11 @@ invention, or whether some of the incidents are borrowed from fact, is an idle question, because a wholly unanswerable one. If the local colour, which is laid on pretty thick, -is good, as some modern archologists aver, +is good, as some modern archæologists aver, it would not be strange that a Jewish novelist who wrote not so long after the passing of Persia should prove as well acquainted with -it as a modern archologist.</p> +it as a modern archæologist.</p> <p>Some recent interpreters find in the story a mythical background: Esther is Ishtar, @@ -4872,7 +4833,7 @@ of the Judges, for which reason it was placed in the Greek Bible and in modern versions between Judges and Samuel. It tells of a young Moabitess, the childless widow of a -Judan from Bethlehem, who accompanies +Judæan from Bethlehem, who accompanies her widowed mother-in-law back to Bethlehem, embracing her religion. Ruth goes out to glean after the reapers and by chance comes @@ -5154,7 +5115,7 @@ order of the English Bible.</p> <p>The first of the prophetic books bears the -name of Isaiah, a Judan prophet, who dates +name of Isaiah, a Judæan prophet, who dates his call "in the year that king Uzziah died," a year which cannot be fixed with certainty, but was at all events not very long before @@ -5567,7 +5528,7 @@ ruin of Judah, occupying permanently the whole south of the country to a line north of Hebron, making good in this way the part of their own old territory which had been taken -by the Nabatans. The injury was lasting +by the Nabatæans. The injury was lasting and the hatred durable, but the flaming passion of Isa. 34 would incline us to think that it was written while the grief was still fresh. @@ -6133,7 +6094,7 @@ thought very poorly of the new lords who had stepped into their shoes in Jerusalem, and they flattered themselves that events would soon take such a turn that they would return -to Juda and to power. They had prophets +to Judæa and to power. They had prophets and diviners among them who encouraged them in this expectation. When Zedekiah revolted and the Babylonian armies a second @@ -6260,7 +6221,7 @@ practised in the temple under the very eyes of "the glory of the God of Israel" (c. 8); after seeing God take his flight from the desecrated sanctuary, the prophet is translated by the -spirit to Chalda again. Another such vision +spirit to Chaldæa again. Another such vision in ecstasy is the famous scene in the valley of dry bones (Ezek. 37). In such cases it is impossible to say how much is actually the @@ -6542,7 +6503,7 @@ who ignored or defied his decrees were persecuted; many of them put to death. This attempt to extirpate the Jewish religion and forcibly heathenize the people provoked a -revolt led by Judas Maccabus and his +revolt led by Judas Maccabæus and his brothers, who three years later recovered the temple, purged it, and restored the sacrifices.</p> @@ -6615,7 +6576,7 @@ in two languages: Dan. i. 1-ii. 4 is in Hebrew, from ii. 4 b to the end of c. 7 in Aramaic, and from the beginning of c. 8 the rest is in Hebrew again. The Aramaic begins appropriately -where the Chaldans (diviners) are introduced +where the Chaldæans (diviners) are introduced speaking in what the author evidently conceives to be the language of the country; the text does not, however, revert to Hebrew @@ -6772,8 +6733,8 @@ return unto the Lord thy God."</p> <p>This book of a prophet of the northern kingdom has come down to us through -Judan hands; the title, with its list of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[194]</a></span> -Judan kings (exactly the same as in the title +Judæan hands; the title, with its list of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[194]</a></span> +Judæan kings (exactly the same as in the title of Isaiah), is doubtless due to a Jewish editor, and we are not surprised to find in the text itself Jewish touches, such as the words "and @@ -6900,7 +6861,7 @@ Chapters 1 and 2 contain a series of brief oracles, on the same plan, against the neighbours of Israel, the Syrians of Damascus, the Philistines, Phœnicians, Edomites, Ammonites, -Moabites, Judans, leading up to a +Moabites, Judæans, leading up to a longer indictment of Israel and denunciation of God's judgment upon it. This is followed by prophecies against Israel (cc. 3-6), which @@ -6986,7 +6947,7 @@ so sweeping and ultimate that later readers<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2 found the message incomplete. Especially the last oracle (ix. 1 ff.) was an ill-omened close. Consequently, a messianic pendant -was attached to it (ix. 11-15) by a Judan +was attached to it (ix. 11-15) by a Judæan editor, and an imperfect juncture made by the introduction of vs. 8<small><sup>b</sup></small> (which flatly contradicts the first half verse) and 9<small><sup>b</sup></small> (no grain shall @@ -7032,7 +6993,7 @@ temple hill become like forest shrines (Mic. iii. 2), is quoted under his name in Jer. xxvi. 18—the only example of such a prophetic quotation in the Old Testament. The author, -a resident of Moresheth-Gath in the Judan +a resident of Moresheth-Gath in the Judæan Lowland, is said in the title to have prophesied in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, which is the editor's way of saying that he @@ -7177,14 +7138,14 @@ originally in acrostic form.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Habakkuk.</span>—The Book of Habakkuk predicts that Jehovah is about to raise up the -fierce Chaldan nation, which marches through +fierce Chaldæan nation, which marches through the breadth of the earth to occupy habitations not belonging to it, which scoffs at kings and has dynasts in derision, laughing at all fortresses, against which it casts up a mound and takes them (Hab. i. 5-11). Such a prophecy would be timely in the last years of the seventh -century: the Chaldan, or New Babylonian, +century: the Chaldæan, or New Babylonian, kingdom dates its independence from 625, and is hardly likely to have attracted much attention in the West before the fall of Nineveh @@ -7530,9 +7491,9 @@ the concrete historical persons and events of c. 11. Taking all together, we shall not go amiss in ascribing these to the early part of the third century <small>B.C.</small>—say between the year -200, when Juda came under Seleucid rule +200, when Judæa came under Seleucid rule and the religious persecution of Antiochus -Epiphanes and the Maccaban revolt, to +Epiphanes and the Maccabæan revolt, to neither of which is there any allusion in the chapters. Chapters 12-14 may perhaps be put in the century before.</p> @@ -7692,7 +7653,7 @@ of their sect; abridging, transposing, expanding, without scruple; and only in very modern times has a tardily awakened literary conscience constrained them to give notice of such -changes. In this way medival Catholic poets +changes. In this way mediæval Catholic poets are made to sing good Protestant songs, or Calvinists and Methodists to drop their shibboleths and express themselves in a manner @@ -7910,13 +7871,13 @@ hypothesis.</p> it, is one of the latest books in the Old Testament, for it contains poems in which the religious persecution of Antiochus IV. and the -Maccaban struggle are clearly reflected, and +Maccabæan struggle are clearly reflected, and very likely events still further down in the second century <small>B.C.</small> This was shown by an acute critic at the beginning of the fifth century <small>A.D.</small>, and in the Reformation century John Calvin rightly referred Pss. 44 and 74 -to the Maccaban times, and admitted the +to the Maccabæan times, and admitted the same possibility for Ps. 79. All these are from the Korahite and Asaphite collections included in the elohistic hymn book, which @@ -7929,9 +7890,9 @@ thus, Ps. 149, where the saints, with the high praises of God in their mouths and a two-edged sword in their hands, execute judgment on the heathen, is singularly apt to the -Maccaban victories. Psalm 110 ("Davidic") +Maccabæan victories. Psalm 110 ("Davidic") most naturally is understood as one of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[227]</a></span> -Asmonan princes, since in them alone +Asmonæan princes, since in them alone priesthood and royalty were united.</p> <p>There are, however, other and more conclusive @@ -8003,7 +7964,7 @@ impossibility of deciding in some instances whether a reigning king is meant or the king<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[229]</a></span> of the good time coming (Messiah), a foreign king may sometimes be in mind (Ps. 45 is so -interpreted by many), or an Asmonan king.</p> +interpreted by many), or an Asmonæan king.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Lamentations.</span>—The fall of Jerusalem in @@ -8019,13 +7980,13 @@ Hebrew Bible the book stands among the miscellaneous Scriptures. The first four poems are in the Hebrew elegiac metre, the verse used for dirges, the characteristic of which is -that each line is divided by a csura into +that each line is divided by a cæsura into unequal parts, oftenest in the ratio of three to two, as in Amos v. 1.</p> <div class="poem"> -<span class="i0">Fllen no mre to rse | is srael's dughter!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Prstrate to arth she les, | n one to lft her.</span> +<span class="i0">Fállen no móre to ríse | is Ísrael's dáughter!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Próstrate to éarth she líes, | nó one to líft her.</span> </div> <p>In Lamentations 1-4 this is combined with an @@ -8285,7 +8246,7 @@ good conscience before God and men.</p> <p>Now a new disputant comes on the scene, whose name does not appear among the -dramatis person, the youthful Elihu; a +dramatis personæ, the youthful Elihu; a short prose introduction tells us who he is, and why he intrudes. He is incensed at them all; at Job for justifying himself at God's @@ -8395,7 +8356,7 @@ right about God.</p> <p>The theme of the Book of Job is one which exercised the greatest of the Greek tragic -poets, and it is treated with an schylean +poets, and it is treated with an Æschylean grandeur; in conception and execution it declares the genius of its author. It has not come into our hands altogether as it left his, @@ -8457,7 +8418,7 @@ Ezekiel knew about Job had any resemblance to the prologue of our book, no one can tell.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[242]</a></span> It may very well be that there was a prose book of Job (in which, possibly, the friends -played the opposite rle from that given them +played the opposite rôle from that given them in the poem), and that the poet took from it the incidents and setting that he needed; but about that also nothing can be known.</p> @@ -8654,7 +8615,7 @@ the Lord to Israel. The Fathers took over all the allegory, only making the lover Christ, the beloved the Church (as still in the running titles of the Authorized Version), or the -soul. The medival church saw in the bride +soul. The mediæval church saw in the bride the Virgin Mary. The allegorical interpretation was a necessary corollary of the dogmatic assumption that the canon of inspired scripture @@ -8682,7 +8643,7 @@ form there were but two actors, the virtuous village maiden and the harem-jaded Solomon; a more plausible scheme gave the girl a rustic lover, which added much to the piquancy of -the scenes with Solomon, and to the <i>dnouement</i>, +the scenes with Solomon, and to the <i>dénouement</i>, in which the king, foiled by the maiden's constancy, confesses virtue triumphant, and sends her back to her shepherd swain. More @@ -8900,7 +8861,7 @@ Baruch, scribe of Jeremiah, <a href="#Page_166">166</a> f., <a href="#Page_168"> Bible, Jewish, <i>see</i> Old Testament<br /> <br /> <br /> -Calvin, on Maccaban Psalms, <a href="#Page_226">226</a><br /> +Calvin, on Maccabæan Psalms, <a href="#Page_226">226</a><br /> <br /> Canaan, conquest, in Jos., <a href="#Page_77">77</a> f., <a href="#Page_88">88</a> f.<br /> <br /> @@ -8916,7 +8877,7 @@ Canon, Jewish, formation of, <a href="#Page_11">11</a><br /> —Council of Trent, <a href="#Page_23">23</a><br /> —<i>See</i> also Apocrypha<br /> <br /> -Chaldans, in Hab., <a href="#Page_205">205</a><br /> +Chaldæans, in Hab., <a href="#Page_205">205</a><br /> —in Dan., <a href="#Page_189">189</a><br /> <br /> Cherubim car, <a href="#Page_178">178</a><br /> @@ -9194,7 +9155,7 @@ Josiah, king, <a href="#Page_116">116</a><br /> —his reforms, <a href="#Page_62">62</a><br /> —reaction, <a href="#Page_103">103</a> f.<br /> <br /> -Judas Maccabus, <a href="#Page_187">187</a><br /> +Judas Maccabæus, <a href="#Page_187">187</a><br /> <br /> Judges, Book, <a href="#Page_81">81</a> ff.<br /> —stories of deliverance, <a href="#Page_84">84</a> ff.<br /> @@ -9357,7 +9318,7 @@ Psalms, Book, <a href="#Page_218">218</a> ff.<br /> —Davidic, <a href="#Page_223">223</a>, <a href="#Page_224">224</a>, <a href="#Page_225">225</a>, <a href="#Page_226">226</a><br /> —Asaphite and Korahite, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>, <a href="#Page_224">224</a><br /> —Songs of Ascents, Hallels, <a href="#Page_222">222</a><br /> -—Maccaban, <a href="#Page_226">226</a> f.<br /> +—Maccabæan, <a href="#Page_226">226</a> f.<br /> —age of the Book, <a href="#Page_223">223</a> ff.<br /> —religious conceptions, <a href="#Page_227">227</a> f.<br /> <br /> @@ -9553,7 +9514,7 @@ Maps.) "A very freshly written and interesting narrative."—<i>The Times.</ <blockquote><p>By Sir <span class="smcap">H. H. Johnston</span>, G.C.M.G., F.Z.S. (With Maps.) "The Home University Library is much enriched by this excellent work."—<i>Daily Mail.</i></p></blockquote> -<p><i>13. MEDIVAL EUROPE</i></p> +<p><i>13. MEDIÆVAL EUROPE</i></p> <blockquote><p>By <span class="smcap">H. W. C. Davis</span>, M.A. (With Maps.) "One more illustration of the fact that it takes a complete master of the subject to write briefly upon @@ -9666,12 +9627,12 @@ French Literature could be given in 250 small pages."—<i>The Times.</i></p to architecture are, as a rule, not worth much. This volume is a welcome exception."—<i>Building News.</i> "Delightfully bright reading."—<i>Christian World.</i></p></blockquote> -<p><i>43. ENGLISH LITERATURE: MEDIVAL</i></p> +<p><i>43. ENGLISH LITERATURE: MEDIÆVAL</i></p> <blockquote><p>By Prof. <span class="smcap">W. P. Ker</span>, M.A. "Prof. Ker, one of the soundest scholars in English -we have, is the very man to put an outline of English Medival Literature +we have, is the very man to put an outline of English Mediæval Literature before the uninstructed public. His knowledge and taste are unimpeachable, -and his style is effective, simple, yet never dry."—<i>The Athenum.</i></p></blockquote> +and his style is effective, simple, yet never dry."—<i>The Athenæum.</i></p></blockquote> <p><i>45. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE</i></p> @@ -9682,7 +9643,7 @@ News.</i></p></blockquote> <p><i>52. GREAT WRITERS OF AMERICA</i></p> <blockquote><p>By Prof. <span class="smcap">J. Erskine</span> and Prof. <span class="smcap">W. P. Trent</span>. "An admirable summary, from -Franklin to Mark Twain, enlivened by a dry humour."—<i>Athenum.</i></p></blockquote> +Franklin to Mark Twain, enlivened by a dry humour."—<i>Athenæum.</i></p></blockquote> <p><i>63. PAINTERS AND PAINTING</i></p> @@ -9696,7 +9657,7 @@ Primitives to the Impressionists.</p></blockquote> <p><i>65. THE LITERATURE OF GERMANY</i></p> <blockquote><p>By Professor <span class="smcap">J. G. Robertson</span>, M.A., Ph.D. "Under the author's skilful -treatment the subject shows life and continuity."—<i>Athenum.</i></p></blockquote> +treatment the subject shows life and continuity."—<i>Athenæum.</i></p></blockquote> <p><i>70. THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE</i></p> @@ -9827,7 +9788,7 @@ It should whet appetites for deeper study."—<i>Christian World.</i></p></b <blockquote><p>By Prof. <span class="smcap">J. W. Gregory</span>, F.R.S. (With 38 Maps and Figures.) "A fascinating little volume.... Among the many good things contained in the -series this takes a high place."—<i>The Athenum.</i></p></blockquote> +series this takes a high place."—<i>The Athenæum.</i></p></blockquote> <p><i>57. THE HUMAN BODY</i></p> @@ -9993,7 +9954,7 @@ interested in the present state of unrest."—<i>Aberdeen Journal.</i></p></ <p><i>26. AGRICULTURE</i></p> <blockquote><p>By Prof. <span class="smcap">W. Somerville</span>, F.L.S. "It makes the results of laboratory work -at the University accessible to the practical farmer."—<i>Athenum.</i></p></blockquote> +at the University accessible to the practical farmer."—<i>Athenæum.</i></p></blockquote> <p><i>30. ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH LAW</i></p> @@ -10113,381 +10074,6 @@ parallel, Exod. xxiii. 16.</p></div> to the building of the temple". 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