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Numbering the people; question of population, &c.; Milman,
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No King recognized. Judges and Priests. Clanship of
the Tribes. Polygamy, Divorce, &c. Patria Potestas.
Murder and Manslaughter. Bond-servants and Slaves.
Theft, Fraud, &c.
The Ritual or Ceremonial Law
Tabernacle and Temple Service. Burnt-offerings, Peace-
offerings, Sin or Trespass-offerings. Three great annual
Festivals: Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles. Annual
Atonement for holy place and holy nation. Clean and
unclean food, &c.
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PART II.-THE HISTORICAL BOOKS.
JOSHUA AND JUDGES, WITH RUTH
Wars of the Jews, and conquest and division of Canaan.
Book of Jasher. 66 'Sun, stand still!" The Judges in Israel.
Right of the conquerors. Divine interpositions mixed with
human horrors in the record. Facts to be distinguished
from opinions. Retrospective interpretation of Providence
by the historians. Tabernacle at Shiloh. Jephthah's vow.
Illegal altars. Poetry of the period: Deborah's song,
Jotham's parable.
History of Ruth
SAMUEL AND KINGS
Public Records. Alleged Sacerdotal colouring. Interpre-
tation of Providence. Temporal retributions. Divine in-
tervention often rashly alleged. Scriptural characters not
all exemplary. Hebrew Monarchy. Saul: consolidation
of the government. David and Solomon: Jewish worship
matured. Tabernacle and Temple. "High-places." Law
known, yet violated. Two tables found in the ark. Book
of the Law found by Hilkiah.
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The Schools of the Prophets
Prophetic office as defined by Moses. Represents the unce-
remonial side of Judaism. Prediction a small part of the
office. Jewish ascription of natural powers to the "Spirit
of God." "Inquiring at the word of the Lord." "Lying
spirits." Baal's prophets. Minstrelsy. Prophets and
Seers. Schools of the Prophets instituted, apparently, by
Samuel. Elijah and Elisha. Later prophets wrote, as
well as spoke, their oracles.
THE CHRONICLES
Their contents. Their later date. Their theology.
EZRA AND NEHEMIAH
History of the return of the Jews from Babylon.
became of the ten tribes? The Exile and its results.
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What
ESTHER
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PART III.—THE DEVOTIONAL AND DIDACTIC BOOKS.
JOB.
Structure of Hebrew Poetry
Difficulties of the subject.
A didactic poem on Providence.
Ignorance of a future state. Prevailing doctrine of tem-
poral retribution. Book of Job a continual protest against
this view. Analysis of the discussion between Job and his
three friends. The umpire Elihu. God himself the vin-
dicator of his own ways. Age and authorship of Job con-
sidered. The Satan. Was Job a real personage?
THE PSALMS
Judaism seen in its devotional and practical aspects. Gra-
dual growth of the Book of Psalms. Consists of five sepa-
rable portions. Variety of subjects, public and private.
Argument from the Psalms for the truth and divinity of
the Jewish Religion. Contemporary Greek poets. The
One Supreme. His Greatness and Goodness. God a Spirit.
Anti-ceremonial doctrine. Devout love of Nature. Trust
in Providence. Jewish doctrine of Angels. Hope of a
Future Life. Social and patriotic aspect of Judaism. Pre-
paration for yet "better things to come."
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The practical morality of Judaism. Teaching by proverbs
and parables. Analysis of the book: its contents,
structure and various authorship.
ECCLESIASTES, OR THE PREACHER.
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The problem of human life stated, but left unsolved.
SOLOMON'S SONG
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Viewed religiously, is not a religious poem.
PART IV.-THE JEWISH PROPHETS, IN THEIR PROBABLE
How to read them. Their connection with the events of their times. Their chronological order.
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JONAH
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His unwritten prophecy. The book of Jonah later than his
own time.
AMOS
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HOSEA
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Historical summary of events affecting the kingdom of Israel.
ISAIAH
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Historical summary of events affecting the kingdom of Judah.
Layard's Nineveh. Predictions of the Ideal Judaism. Ana-
lysis of the book. "The latter days." Shear-Jashub,
Immanuel, Maher-shalal-hash-baz, the prophet's children,
"for signs and wonders in Israel." "Unto us a child is
born." "A branch from the stem of Jesse." Various
burdens. The younger Isaiah.
MICAH
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"The latter days." A ruler to come from Bethlehem Ephra-
tah. Moral elevation of the prophetic appeals.
Prophecies under this name belong to two periods, if not
three. "The king of Zion riding upon an ass."
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NAHUM (against Nineveh) .
JOEL
The locusts. Summary of history from Hezekiah to the
Captivity.
ZEPHANIAH
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Josiah's great Passover.
HABAKKUK
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The Chaldeans. Dramatic style of this prophet. The prayer
of Habakkuk.
OBADIAH
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Against Edom. Verbal resemblance to Jeremiah.
JEREMIAH
The prophet of the coming woe; expostulatory first, then
absolute. Disregard of order in the collection of his pro-
phecies and narrations. Jeremiah a clear-sighted and
active politician. His style. Analysis of the book. Teach-
ing by emblems. A drought. False prophets. "The
days to come." "The clay in the potter's hand." The
prophet "curses his day." The "righteous Branch from
David." "Rachel weeping for her children." "Every one
shall die for his own iniquity." The new covenant with
Israel. Burdens against foreign nations.
LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH
Elaborate and artificial structure of the book.
EZEKIEL .
Prophesied during the captivity, in Mesopotamia. His vision
of "living creatures." Winged bulls of Assyria. Emble-
matic style of teaching. Analysis. "The soul that sins
shall die." "Sun and moon darkened." Prophecy against
Egypt never fulfilled. Ezekiel's description of the expected
New Jerusalem. The "Son of Man."
The return from captivity. "Glad tidings to Zion." Israel,
"the servant of God." Cyrus, "the LORD's Anointed, or
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Messiah." Messianic kingdom. "The Lord hath redeemed Jerusalem." "The despised and rejected of men." "The new heavens and new earth." Disappointment of the Jewish hope. Better things still in store.
HAGGAI
Rebuilding of the Temple. "The glory of the latter house."
"My servant, the Branch." Prince Zerubbabel and the high-
priest Joshua. True fasts.
MALACHI .
Time of Nehemiah.
"Incense from the Gentiles."
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"The
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Messenger of the Covenant.” Elijah the Prophet."
"The great and dreadful day of the Lord."
DANIEL
Proofs of the late origin of the book. Its suitableness to the
time of Antiochus IV. and the Maccabees. Analysis. Nar-
rative part. Nebuchadnezzar's dream. Visions of Daniel,
representing the succession of kingdoms from the Baby-
lonian to the Roman. The "seventy years" of Jeremiah
extended into "seventy weeks of years;" yet not quite
meeting the expositor's idea. Vision of the political rela-
tions of Egypt and Syria, involving Judea. Antiochus Epi-
phanes. Vision of deliverance, under Michael "the great
prince of the children of Israel." The book of Daniel a
link in the literary history of Jewish and Christian writings.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF KINGS AND PROPHETS
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