JOB AND SOLOMON
OR
THE WISDOM OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
BY THE
REV. T. K. CHEYNE, M.A., D.D.
ORIEL PROFESSOR OF INTERPRETATION AT OXFORD
CANON OF ROCHESTER
NEW YORK
THOMAS WHITTAKER
2 & 3 BIBLE HOUSE
1887
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION 1
THE BOOK OF JOB.
I. Job’s Calamity; the Opening of the Dialogues (Chaps. i.-xiv.) 11
II. The Second Cycle of Speeches (Chaps. xv.-xxi.) 30
III. The Third Cycle of Speeches (Chaps. xxii.-xxxi.) 37
IV. The Speeches of Elihu (Chaps. xxxii.-xxxvii.) 42
V. The Speeches of Jehovah (Chaps. xxxviii.-xlii. 6) 48
VI. The Epilogue and its Meaning 58
VII. The Traditional Basis and the Purpose of Job 60
VIII. Date and Place of Composition 71
IX. Argument from the Use of Mythology 76
X. Argument from the Doctrine of Angels 79
XI. Argument from Parallel Passages 83
XII. On the Disputed Passages in the Dialogue Portion, especially the Speeches of Elihu 90
XIII. Is Job a Hebræo-Arabic Poem? 96
XIV. The Book from a Religious Point of View 102
XV. The Book from a General and Western Point of View 106
Note on Job and the Modern Poets 112
Note on the Text of Job 112
Aids to the Student 115
xii THE BOOK OF PROVERBS.
I. Hebrew Wisdom, its Nature, Scope, and Importance 117
II. The Form and Origin of the Proverbs 125
III. The First Collection and its Appendices 130
IV. The Second Collection and its Appendices 142
V. The Praise of Wisdom 156
VI. Supplementary on Questions of Date and Origin 165
VII. The Text of Proverbs 173
Note on Prov. xxx. 31 175
VIII. The Religious Value of the Book of Proverbs 176
Aids to the Student 178
THE WISDOM OF JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH.
I. The Wise Man Turned Scribe. Sirach’s Moral Teaching 179
II. Sirach’s Teaching (continued). His Place in the Movement of Thought 188
Aids to the Student (see also Appendix) 198
THE BOOK OF KOHELETH; OR, ECCLESIASTES.
I. The Wise Man Turned Author and Philosopher 199
II. ‘Truth and Fiction’ in an Autobiography 207
III. More Moralising, interrupted by Proverbial Maxims 213
IV. Facts of Contemporary Life 218
V. The Wise Man’s Parting Counsels 222
xiii VI. Koheleth’s ‘Portrait of Old Age;’ the Epilogue, its Nature and Origin 229
VII. Ecclesiastes and its Critics (from a Philological Point of View) 236
VIII. Ecclesiastes and its Critics (from a Literary and Psychological Point of View) 242
IX. Ecclesiastes from a Moral and Religious Point of View 248
X. Date and Place of Composition 255
XI. Does Koheleth contain Greek Words or Ideas? 260
XII. Textual Problems of Koheleth 273
XIII. The Canonicity of Ecclesiastes and Ecclesiasticus 279
Aids to the Student 285
APPENDIX (see Special Table of Contents) 287
INDEX 303
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