own comparisons and conclusions, may thus secure new and abiding light on the Gospel and the Church. He has to acknowledge with deep thankfulness the help afforded by Dr. Charles's great edition of those books, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, the articles in Hastings's Dictionary of the Bible and the Encyclopædia Biblica, and Dr. W. O. E. Oesterley's The Books of the Apocrypha, without which this Introduction would have been impossible. East Finchley, CONTENTS APOCRYPHA ADDITIONS TO ESTHER . OTHER BOOKS TABLE OF PERIODS OF THE WRITING OF THE UNCANONICAL BOOKS I. Baruch III. Baruch II. Maccabees Wisdom of Assumption III. Maccabees Dragon I. Enoch (4) Prayer of Jubilees Manasseh I. Enoch (3) Susanna Testament of Additions to archs Sibylline Esther I. Enoch (2) Oracles, iii. I. Enoch (5) Psalms of Solomon II. Enoch IV. Maccabees Adam and Martyrdom Sibylline Constituents Sibylline II. Esdras BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS IN ENGLISH Schürer. A HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE TIME OF JESUS CHRIST. English translation, 1890-1. German ed. 3rd and 4th, 1901-9. Edwyn Bevan. Jerusalem under the High Priests. 1904. Toy. Christianity and Judaism. 1891. Oesterley. Wisdom of Jesus, Son of Sirach. 1912. Ecclesiasticus. (Cambridge Bible.) 1912. The Doctrine of the Last Things. 1908. The Books of the Apocrypha. 1914. The Evolution of the Messianic Idea. 1908. Oesterley and Box. The Religion and Worship of the Syna gogue. 1911. Burkitt. JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN APOCALYPSES. 1914. 1913. Charles. Eschatology, Hebrew, Jewish and Christian. S. Davidson. The Canon of the Bible. 1877. Ryle. The Canon of the Old Testament. 1892. Robertson Smith. The Old Testament in the Jewish Church. 1895. Swete. The Old Testament in Greek. 1899. Charles. THE APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. (Edited with many scholars.) Book of Enoch. 1912. Assumption of Moses. 1897. Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. 1908. Secrets of Enoch. (With Morfill.) 1896. Ascension of Isaiah. 1900. Apocalypse of Baruch. 1896. Ryle and James. The Psalms of Solomon. 1891. Rendel Harris. The Odes and Psalms of Solomon. Driver. Introduction to Old Testament. 1891. 1913. 1911. Bissell. Ist Book of Maccabees. (Lange-Schaff.) 1880. Fairweather and Black. Ist Book of Maccabees. (Cambridge Bible.) 1897. Goodrick. Book of Wisdom. 1913. Bensly and James. Fourth Book of Ezra (Latin Version.) 1895. Box. The Ezra-Apocalypse. 1912. Hastings. Dictionary of the Bible. Encycl. of Religion and Ethics. General and Special Jewish Encyclopædia. Articles. Editions of Apocryphal Books in Lange-Schaff's Commentary: Wace's Apocrypha, Modern Reader's Bible, Temple Bible, and the Variorum Apocrypha. S.P.C.K. Texts. I.-Aramaic Papyri. Cowley. Wisdom of Ben-Sira. Oesterley. Book of Enoch. Charles. Book of Jubilees. Charles. Testaments of Twelve Patriarchs. Odes and Psalms of Solomon. Charles. Box. Apocalypse of Ezra (2 Esdras). Box. Assumption of Moses. Ferrar. Biblical Antiquities of Philo. James. II.-Wisdom of Solomon. Sibylline Oracles. Bate. Oesterley. Letter of Aristeas. Thackeray. Selections from Josephus. Thackeray. 3 and 4 Maccabees. Emmet. The above short and cheap text-books have either appeared already, or are in the press. (Large type indicates general indispensability for study.) |