Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Academical Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures and Antiquities, Vol. 4
Solomon. Allegorical Interpretations, designed to give it a Relig ious Significance. - Not referred to in the New Testament. Title of the Book of Proverbs. -analysis of its Contents. Question of its Authorship. - Questions concerning Agur and Lemuel. The Book illustrative of Jewish Morals and Manners. Quotations in the New Testament. Subject and Design of the Book of Eccle siastes. Time of its Composition. Its Structure not that of a Dialogue. Its Cynical and Epicurean Doctrine. Remarks on some Passages. No Quotation from it in the New Testament. Author and Translator of Ecclesiasticus. Original in the Hebrew Tongue. Versions. Times of the Composition and Translation. Analysis of the Contents. Value of the Book in itself, and as il lustrative of the In?uence of Jewish Institutions. References to it in the New Testament. - The Wisdom of Solomon the Work of an Egyptian Jew. Date of its Composition. Its Doctrine of Retri botiou. Analysis of its Contents. Its Unity. Coincidences of Language between it and the New Testament.
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