An Introduction to the Old Testament

G. & C. Carvill, 1827 - 546 pages

PRELIMINARY REMARKS	1

Literary History of Introductions to the Old Testament	9

Corruption of the Old Testament in the nature of things impos	13

1ii 3 one of the most ancient documents	20

The books of the Old Testament are worthy of credit	26

The Old Testament contains a divinely revealed religion 18	33

Origin of the Alexandrine Version	34

Inspiration of the historical books 24	39

Character of its Hebrew text 31	233

Difficulties in it	237

Of the name of the books	249

OF THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL KINGS AND CHRONICLES	253

Contents of the First book of Maccabees	257

Their age 47	259

Its author and age	263

Their historical credit 52	266

The Song of the Three Children 223	47

The Second Canon or Apocrypha 29	48

Specimen of the Hexapla P	56

Who is king Ahasuerus?	66

Language of the Old Testament	68

Mediate Syriac Versions 52	69

OF THE PSALMS	71

Diversity in the dialects	74

Value of particular dialects	80

Evidences of a divine mission	85

Contents of the Book of Amos	91

Contents of the Book of Micah	97

Necessity of Etymology 83	98

Are the prophecies of Isaiah entire ?	103

Josephus and the Fathers 90	105

Age of the Vowel points 94	111

Division of the text into verses 99	118

History of the text until the Alexandrine version was made 105	124

Recensions of Ben Asher and Ben Naphtali 110	132

Alexandrine Version of the Book of Jeremiah	137

CHAPTER VII	142

Quotations in the Fathers 124	151

Critical conjecture 144	164

Date of the Book of Psalms	166

PARTICULAR INTRODUCTION TO EACH BOOK OF	169

Psalm by Moses	174

Internal evidence that Moses is its author 3	181

As the Book of Moses 8	187

Psalms of David 171	196

It is not a compilation of recent date 11	198

Documents collected in Genesis 16	204

The publication of the Pentateuch 22	217

Whether Joshua was its author 25	224

History of Susannah	225

Versions of the history	231

CHAPTER V	273

The Artaxerxes of Nehemiah is Artaxerxes Longimanus 62	279

SECTION II	291

The Prophecies of Scripture not general 79	302

Some prophecies have a double sense 82	309

The prophecy against Tyre c xxiii 106	354

OF THE PROPHETS WHOSE AGE HAS NOT BEEN RECORDED	361

Style of Obadiah 122	368

Difficulties in the narrative 126	375

Contents of the Book of Jeremiah 134	381

Style of Jeremiah 135	388

Contents of the Book of Ezekiel 142	395

Style of Ezekiel 143	401

Its style	411

Whether Daniel is the author of it 150	417

OF THE PROPHETS WHO LIVED AFTER THE CAPTIVITY	424

Its style 160	434

Psalms inscribed to the Korahites and to Jeduthun 172	445

Psalms composed for choirs 179	451

Contents of the Book of Malachi 164	452

Contents of the book 185	458

Opinions respecting its contents 187	468

Its style 165	476

The Book of Job the work of one author 195	478

The subject of the book 206	487

On the name of the book 209	490

SECTION IV	498

Versions of the Book of Baruch 222	504

Author of the Book of Tobit 241	521

Difficulties in it 244	527

CHAPTER VII	535

Author and age of the book 208	536

Versions of the work 255	542

Language and versions of the book 264	545

Its use 184

Title	An Introduction to the Old Testament ATLA monograph preservation program [American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection
Author	Johann Jahn
Edition	reprint
Publisher	G. & C. Carvill, 1827
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	29 Oct 2008
ISBN	0790507757, 9780790507750
Length	546 pages

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