It is available at: http://www.amazon.com/
How shall we regard the Old Testament? A few clippets by the week (called lections)? Offerings from the unions bosses of the Cherry Pickers International (AFL-CIO)? How does the neglect or dismissal of the OT affect the reading of the NT? Theology? Worship? Piety? What does one "Confess" to the world?
Some introductions on offer by Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) Young in that old and scholarly Presbyterian and Princetonian tradition.
Early church
1. Direct interest in exposition of the text
2. Augustine. De Doctrina Christiana contains much introductory material and the principle of praecepta tractandum scriptuarum. Augustine. On Christian Teaching (Oxford World’s Classics). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.http://www.amazon.com/
3. Jerome. Libellus de optimo interpretandi genere. Unable to locate.
4. Junilius (an African bishop). De partibus lege divine. An effort to inculcate “methodical understanding” of the Scriptures. Unable to locate.
5. Cassiodorus, Marcus Aurelius. Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning and On the Soul. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004. Directions for the copying of manuscripts along with comments on text and canon. http://www.amazon.com/
6. Nicholas of Lyra. Postilla perpetua. Unable to locate.
However, this as a secondary source.
Klepper, Deeana Copeland. The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages (Jewish Culture and Contexts). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. http://www.amazon.com/
Amazon.com says the following of Nicholas:
“In the year 1309, Nicholas of Lyra, an important Franciscan Bible commentator, put forth a question at the University of Paris, asking whether it was possible to prove the advent of Christ from scriptures received by the Jews. This question reflects the challenges he faced as a Christian exegete determined to value Jewish literature during an era of increasing hostility toward Jews in western Europe. Nicholas's literal commentary on the Bible became one of the most widely copied and disseminated of all medieval Bible commentaries. Jewish commentary was, as a result, more widely read in Latin Christendom than ever before, while at the same moment Jews were being pushed farther and farther to the margins of European society. His writings depict Jews as stubborn unbelievers who also held indispensable keys to understanding Christian Scripture. In The Insight of Unbelievers, Deeana Copeland Klepper examines late medieval Christian use of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish interpretation of Scripture, focusing on Nicholas of Lyra as the most important mediator of Hebrew traditions. Klepper highlights the important impact of both Jewish literature and Jewish unbelief on Nicholas of Lyra and on Christian culture more generally. By carefully examining the place of Hebrew and rabbinic traditions in the Christian study of the Bible, The Insight of Unbelievers elaborates in new ways on the relationship between Christian and Jewish scholarship and polemic in late medieval Europe.”
7. “All of the above are scholarly…” (16).
Reformation and Post-Reformation: Mr. Young says the “Reformation brought to the fore the importance of studying the Hebrew text itself” (18). Both Luther and Calvin studied “Hebrew and did much to encourage its study” (18).
1. Francis Sixtus of Sienna.Divine Library (1566). Unable to locate.
Mr. Young should have included many more details on these publications, like an official bibliography. Although there is a limited bibliography at the end.
2. Brian Walton, bishop of Chester. Introduction to the Old Testament. Unable to locate. There is material on his life and memoirs but not his introduction. He's a Restoration, post-1662 Anglican bishop.
3. August Pfeiffer, Critica Sacra. No location: Ulan, 2012. http://www.amazon.com/
4. Heidegger, Johann Heinrich. Enchiridion Biblicum Hieromnemonicon Lectioni Sacrae, Analysi Generali Singulorum V. Et N. Test. Librorum. No location: Nabu Press, 2011. http://www.amazon.com/
Rise of modern critical (presuppositionally by faith) hostilities to supernaturalism:
1. Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. No location: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. http://www.amazon.com/
2. Spinoza, Benedict. Tractus Theologico-Politicus (trans. R. H. M. Elwes). Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2006. http://www.amazon.com/
3. Simon, Richard (a Romanist). A Critical History of the Old Testament. No location: RareBookClub.com, 2012. http://www.amazon.com/
4. Carpzov, Johann Gottlob. Introduction ad libros canonicos bibliorum V. Testamentum. No location: RareBookClub.com, 2012. http://www.amazon.com/
5. Semler, Johann Salomo. I.S. Semleri apparatus ad liberalem Veteris Testamenti interpretationem. No location: RarebookClub.com, 2012. (English). http://www.amazon.com/
6. Eichhorn, Johann Gottfried. Introduction to the Old Testament. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. Allegedly, largely traditional, but show signs of the impressing of the rising tide of hostility. http://www.amazon.com/
19th Century: Generally, according to Mr. Young, the 19th century suffered from the “barrenness of 18th century theology and philosophy” (21). We believe that needs substantive qualification, but we’ll let it stand. But, there was a serious effort in some sectors to “airbrush” His Sovereign Majesty "out of and away" from the inspiration and superintendence of the Scripture. "Bye, bye" was the modern Marcionitic message in a different theme.
1. Kant, Immanuel, blah, blah, blah. “Man’s exodus from his self-encumbered minority…” (21). I can’t bring myself to research him, e.g. Pure Reason, although he was extremely influential. I had enough of his er, um, crap years back. Mr. Young notes that the effects brought gross deceptions and exalted “human reason.
2. De Wette, Wilhelm Martin Lebrecht. A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Canonical Scriptures of the Old Testament (trans. Theodore Parker). Ann Arbor, MI: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan, 2005. http://www.amazon.com/
3. Ewald, Georg Henry August. Commentary on the Prophets of the Old Testament. No location: Ulan Press, 2012. More balanced than De Wette, but still critical. http://www.amazon.com/
4. Havernick, Heinrich Andreas C. A General Historic-Critical Introduction to the Old Testament. No location: Ulan Press, 2012. Mr. Young seems quite favourable to Mr. Havernick. http://www.amazon.com/
Available online at: http://books.google.com/
5. Green, William Henry. An Introduction to the Old Testament. Available online at: http://books.google.com/
Of note, there are several other works by this old and scholarly Princetonian online, but we did not list them. He conducted the Graf-Wellhausen funeral in the 1890s.
6. Keil and Delitzsch. Commentary on the Old Testament, 10 Volumes. Peabody, MA: Henrickson Publishers, 1996. http://www.amazon.com/
7. Bleek, Friedrick. An Introduction to the Old Testament. No location: BiblioBazaar, 2009. http://www.amazon.com/
8. Graf, Karl Heinrich. Unable to locate his works in English.
9. Wellhausen, Julius Firminger. Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel. No location: Forgotten Books, 2008. http://www.amazon.com/
10. Kuenen, Abraham. Historico-Critical Inquiry into the Origin and Composition of the Hextateuch: Pentateuch and Joshua. No location: Forgotten Books, 2012. http://www.amazon.com/
11. Smith, William Robertson. The Old Testament in the Jewish Church—Twelve Lectures on Biblical Criticism. Clarement, CA: Pomona Press, 2007. A Ritschlian and Hegelian perspective. http://www.amazon.com/
12. Driver, Samuel Rolles. An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament. No location: BiblioBazaar, 2009. http://www.amazon.com/
20th century
1. Gunkel, Herman. Israel and Babylon. No location: BiblioBizaar, 2009. http://www.amazon.com/
2. Gressman, Herman. Altorientalische Texte Und Texte und Bilder Zum Alten Testament. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1926. Mr. Young says this Mr. Gressman “cast severe blows against certain tenets of the modern school.” http://www.amazon.com/
3. Cornhill, Carl. Introduction to the Canonical Books of the Old Testament. No location: HardPress Publishing, 2013. A popularize of Graf-Wellhausen. http://www.amazon.com/
4. Creelman, Harlan. An Introduction to the Old Testament. No location: BiblioBazaar, 2009. http://www.amazon.com/
5. Brewer, Julius. The Literature of the Old Testament. Columbia UP, NY, 1945. http://www.amazon.com/
6. Eissfeldt, Otto. The Old Testament: An Introduction (trans. Peter Ackroyd). New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1965. An edition is available at: http://www.amazon.com/
7. Oesterley, W.O.E. and Robinson, Theodore. An Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament. S.P.C.K, 1953. http://www.amazon.com/
8. Moeller, Wilhem. Einleitung in das Alte Testament. Unable to locate. Although Mr. Young thinks this German delivered serious blows to liberalism.
9. Pfeiffer, R.H. Introduction to the Old Testament. Adam & Charles Black, 1963. http://www.amazon.com/
10. Rowley, H. H. The Growth of the Old Testament. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1961. http://www.amazon.com/
-------The Old Testament and Modern Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952. http://www.amazon.com/
11. Gottwald, Norman K. A Light to the Nations: an Introduction to the Old Testament. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2009. http://www.amazon.com/
12. Unger, Merrill. Introductory Guide to the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1984. http://www.amazon.com/
20th Century Papal Romanist:
1. Mariani, P. Bonaventura. Introductio in Libros Sacros Veteris Testamenti. Rome: Casa Editrice Herder, 1958. "A classical, conservative and scholarly defense."
20th Century Eastern (Rumanian) Orthodox
1. Prelipcean, V. and Neaga, N. Introduction. Could not locate. Mr. Young said, “This is a thoroughly conservative and scholarly work” (25).
How shall we regard the Old Testament? A few clippets by the week (called lections)? Offerings from the unions bosses of the Cherry Pickers International (AFL-CIO)? How does the neglect or dismissal of the OT affect the reading of the NT? Theology? Worship? Piety? What does one "Confess" to the world?
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