The Making of the New TestamentBacon, Benjamin Wisner
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The Making of the New Testament
Bacon, Benjamin Wisner
Bible. New Testament -- Introductions
MOFFATT, JAS. _"Internat. Theol. Library" Series._ Scribner's, 1911.
Standard, comprehensive, progressive. Best compendium of the subject
in English. A book for experts. 671 pp., 8vo.
JÜLICHER, A. Engl. transl, by D. A. Ward, from 4th German ed.
London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1903. The most serviceable of modern
German Introductions, based on the standard work of the "liberal"
school, by H. J. Holtzmann. 650 pp., large 8vo.
ZAHN, THEO. Engl. transl. from 3rd German ed., by M. W. Jacobus.
Scribner's, 1909. Standard "conservative" work. Immense scholarship
in the harness of apologetics. Total, 1750 pp., in 3 vols., large
8vo.
BACON, B. W. _"New Test. Handbook" Series._ Macmillan 1900. Similar
to Moffatt's in standpoint, but without the survey of the
literature. For readers less technically advanced. 300 pp., small
8vo.
PEAKE, A. S. N.Y., Scribner's, 1910. 250 pp., 12mo. An excellent
primer of the subject, generally conservative.
2. Critical Treatments of Pauline Literature.
SHAW, R. D. _The Pauline Epistles, Introductory and Expository
Studies_, 2nd ed. T. & T. Clarke, 1904. 518 pp., large 8vo. Sober
and cautious. For general readers.
RAMSAY, W. M. _Pauline and other Studies in Early Christian
History._ Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. 425 pp., large 8vo. _The Cities
of St. Paul_ (1907, 468 pp.) is by the same author, an eminent
geographer and archaeologist ardently enlisted against German
criticism. Interesting but diffuse.
PFLEIDERER, O. _Paulinism._ Engl. transl. by E. Peters. 2nd ed.
1891. Williams & Norgate. 2 vols. 8vo. Total, 580 pp., 8vo. Still a
standard exposition of Paul's system of thought. A book for experts.
BAUR, F. C. _Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ, his Life and Work,
Epistles and Doctrine._ Engl. transl. of Zeller's (2nd), German ed.,
by A. Menzies. Williams & Norgate, 1876. Two vols. 8vo (375 + 350
pp.). An epoch-making book, the starting-point of modern criticism.
SCHWEITZER, A. This able, though one-sided, critic has issued
already (1912) the conclusion to his study of modern Lives of Christ
(see below, _The Quest of the Historical Jesus_) under the title
_Geschichte der Paulinischen Forschung_. It may be expected that
this comprehensive survey and searching criticism of the literature
of Pauline study will soon be made accessible to the English reader.
WREDE, W. _Paul._ Engl. transl. by E. Lummis. P. Green, London,
1907. 190 pp., 12mo. A brief, brilliant, popular sketch, radical,
suggestive. Needs the balance of more cautious criticism.
WEISS, J. _Paul and Jesus._ Engl. transl. by H. J. Chaytor. London
and New York, Harper & Bros., 1909. 130 pp., 12mo. An effective
answer to Wrede's view of Paul as the real creator of Christianity,
by a progressive and able critic.
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