The Literature of the Old TestamentMoore, George Foot
Religion
The Literature of the Old Testament
Moore, George Foot
Bible. Old Testament -- Introductions
Judges, Book, 81 ff.
----stories of deliverance, 84 ff.
----interpretation of history, 81, 83
----original close of the Book, 91
Judgment, last, in Isa. _24-27_, 156 f.
Julius Africanus, 15
Kadesh, 70
Kingdom, founding, two accounts, 92
----division of, 108
Kings, Books, 100 ff.
----2 Kings _18-20_ = Isa. _36-39_, 114
Koheleth, the name, 243
Lamentations, Book, 229 ff.
Latin Bible, 17
Laws, given at Sinai, 49
----Ezra's, ratification of, 130
Legends, rise of, 98
Leviathan, 156
Levites, choice of, in Num., 55 f.
----in Chron., 123
Leviticus, Book, 52 ff.
Little Horn, Dan. 8, 185
Love, principle of religion in Hos., 192 f.
Malachi, Book, 215 f.
Manasseh, king, his sins, 104
Medes, 152
Merodach Baladan, 116, 153
Messianic prophecy, _see_ Golden Age
Micah, Book, 201 ff.
Micaiah ben Imlah, 112, 145
Midrash, of Kings, 124, 127
Minor Prophets, 190 ff.
Mixed marriages, 129, 130, 217
Myths, Babylonian, in Gen., 177 f.
Moloch, 104
Monotheism, in Deut., 59
----in Isa. _40-66_, 161
Naboth's vineyard, 111
Nahum, Book, 204 f.
Nehemiah, mission to Jerusalem, 129 f.
----Memoirs, 129, 131, 183
----Book, 118, 128 ff.
New Year, 48
Nineveh, prophecy against, Zeph., 208
----Nah., 204 f.
Numbers, Book, 55 ff.
Obadiah, Book, 200
Old Testament, the name, 7
----Jewish, divisions, 8
----order of books, 8
----sacred scriptures, 25
----a national literature, 26 ff.
----literary quality, 28 f.
Omri, king, 109 f.
Origen, 16
P (Priestly authors), 35 f.
----Origins of Religious Institutions, 44 f.
----in Gen., contents, 45 ff.
----diction and style, 46
----conception of God, 47
----the revelation at Sinai, 51
----age of the laws in, 66 f.
----age and origin of P, 56 f., 65 f.
----united with J E D, 72
----in Jos., 78
Passover, 48
Patriarchs, in J and E, 35 ff.
Pentateuch, 29 ff.
----the law of Moses, 31
----names of the books, 29
----contents, 29-31
----beginnings of criticism, 32 ff.
----main sources, 33 ff.
----method of the author, 72 f.
----composition, 65 ff.
----age of, as a whole, 72 f.
----_See_ under the several Books, also, J, E, D, P.
Peoples of the land, 122
Porphyry, 187
Priesthood, in Chron., 121, 122 f.
Priests' Code, 56 f., 130, 134
Priests and levites, cities, in Jos., 78
Priests, invective in Mal., 216
Primeval History, sources, 41
----ultimate sources, 42 f.
Prophets, Former and Latter, 8
----in old Israel, 144 f.
----societies, or orders of, 145 f.
----popular, 202 f.
----bad repute of, 196, 214
----ninth century, 110 ff.
----eighth century, 146 f., 190, 199
Proverbs, Book, 231 ff.
Providence, scepticism in Eccles., 243, 244
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