Chapter II: Introduction: 1

_THE BOOK OF JOB._

I. JOB’S CALAMITY; THE OPENING OF THE DIALOGUES (Chaps. i.-xiv.) 11

II. THE SECOND CYCLE OF SPEECHES (Chaps. xv.-xxi.) 30

III. THE THIRD CYCLE OF SPEECHES (Chaps. xxii.-xxxi.) 37

IV. THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (Chaps. xxxii.-xxxvii.) 42

V. THE SPEECHES OF JEHOVAH (Chaps. xxxviii.-xlii. 6) 48

VI. THE EPILOGUE AND ITS MEANING 58

VII. THE TRADITIONAL BASIS AND THE PURPOSE OF JOB 60

VIII. DATE AND PLACE OF COMPOSITION 71

IX. ARGUMENT FROM THE USE OF MYTHOLOGY 76

X. ARGUMENT FROM THE DOCTRINE OF ANGELS 79

XI. ARGUMENT FROM PARALLEL PASSAGES 83

XII. ON THE DISPUTED PASSAGES IN THE DIALOGUE PORTION, ESPECIALLY THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU 90

XIII. IS JOB A HEBRÆO-ARABIC POEM? 96

XIV. THE BOOK FROM A RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW 102

XV. THE BOOK FROM A GENERAL AND WESTERN POINT OF VIEW 106

_Note_ on Job and the Modern Poets 112

_Note_ on the Text of Job 112

_Aids to the Student_ 115

_THE BOOK OF PROVERBS._

I. HEBREW WISDOM, ITS NATURE, SCOPE, AND IMPORTANCE 117

II. THE FORM AND ORIGIN OF THE PROVERBS 125

III. THE FIRST COLLECTION AND ITS APPENDICES 130

IV. THE SECOND COLLECTION AND ITS APPENDICES 142

V. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM 156

VI. SUPPLEMENTARY ON QUESTIONS OF DATE AND ORIGIN 165

VII. THE TEXT OF PROVERBS 173

_Note_ on Prov. xxx. 31 175

VIII. THE RELIGIOUS VALUE OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS 176

_Aids to the Student_ 178

_THE WISDOM OF JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH._

I. THE WISE MAN TURNED SCRIBE. SIRACH’S MORAL TEACHING 179

II. SIRACH’S TEACHING (_continued_). HIS PLACE IN THE MOVEMENT OF THOUGHT 188

_Aids to the Student_ (see also _Appendix_) 198

_THE BOOK OF KOHELETH; OR, ECCLESIASTES._

I. THE WISE MAN TURNED AUTHOR AND PHILOSOPHER 199

II. ‘TRUTH AND FICTION’ IN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY 207

III. MORE MORALISING, INTERRUPTED BY PROVERBIAL MAXIMS 213

IV. FACTS OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE 218

V. THE WISE MAN’S PARTING COUNSELS 222

VI. KOHELETH’S ‘PORTRAIT OF OLD AGE;’ THE EPILOGUE, ITS NATURE AND ORIGIN 229

VII. ECCLESIASTES AND ITS CRITICS (FROM A PHILOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW) 236

VIII. ECCLESIASTES AND ITS CRITICS (FROM A LITERARY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW) 242

IX. ECCLESIASTES FROM A MORAL AND RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW 248

X. DATE AND PLACE OF COMPOSITION 255

XI. DOES KOHELETH CONTAIN GREEK WORDS OR IDEAS? 260

XII. TEXTUAL PROBLEMS OF KOHELETH 273

XIII. THE CANONICITY OF ECCLESIASTES AND ECCLESIASTICUS 279

_Aids to the Student_ 285

APPENDIX (_see_ Special Table of Contents) 287

INDEX 303