Chapter I: Front Matter

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HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE
THE LITERATURE OF THE
OLD TESTAMENT

BY
GEORGE FOOT MOORE, M.A., D.D., LL.D.

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_Editors_:

HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A., LL.D. PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, D.LITT., LL.D., F.B.A. PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A., LL.D. PROF. WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, M.A. (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, U.S.A.)

NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY]

THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

BY GEORGE FOOT MOORE M.A., D.D., LL.D.

Professor in Harvard University; Editor of the Harvard Theological Review; Author of "Commentary on Judges," etc.

LONDON WILLIAMS AND NORGATE]

The following volumes of kindred interest have already been published in the Home University Library:--

VOL. 56.--THE MAKING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By PROF. B. W.
BACON, LL.D., D.D.Vol.

VOL. 68.--COMPARATIVE RELIGION. By PRINCIPAL J. ESTLIN
CARPENTER, D.Litt.

VOL. 15.--MOHAMMEDANISM. By PROF. D. S. MARGOLIOUTH, M.A.,
D.Litt.

VOL. 47.--BUDDHISM. By MRS. RHYS DAVIDS, M.A.

VOL. 54.--ETHICS. By G. E. MOORE, M.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE CANON OF THE OLD TESTAMENT 7

II THE OLD TESTAMENT AS A NATIONAL
LITERATURE 25

III THE PENTATEUCH 29

IV CHARACTER OF THE SOURCES. GENESIS 33

V EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS 47

VI DEUTERONOMY 58

VII AGE OF THE SOURCES. COMPOSITION OF THE
PENTATEUCH 65

VIII JOSHUA 73

IX JUDGES 81

X SAMUEL 91

XI KINGS 100

XII CHRONICLES 118

XIII EZRA AND NEHEMIAH 128

XIV STORY BOOKS: ESTHER, RUTH, JONAH 134

XV THE PROPHETS 144

XVI ISAIAH 147

XVII JEREMIAH 164

XVIII EZEKIEL 174

XIX DANIEL 180

XX MINOR PROPHETS 190

XXI PSALMS. LAMENTATIONS 218

XXII PROVERBS 231

XXIII JOB 235

XXIV ECCLESIASTES. SONG OF SONGS 243

BIBLIOGRAPHY 251

INDEX 253

THE LITERATURE

OF

THE OLD TESTAMENT