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Numbers. By the Rev. G. Buchanan Gray, D.D., Professor of Hebrew, Mansfield College, Oxford.
“Most Bible readers have the impression that ‘Numbers’ is a dull book only relieved by the brilliancy of the Balaam chapters and some snatches of old Hebrew songs, but, as Prof. Gray shows with admirable skill and insight, its historical and religious value is not that which lies on the surface. Prof. Gray’s Commentary is distinguished by fine scholarship and sanity of judgment; it is impossible to commend it too warmly.”—Saturday Review (London).
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Deuteronomy. By the Rev. S. R. Driver, D.D., D.Litt., Regius Professor of Hebrew, and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
“It is a pleasure to see at last a really critical Old Testament commentary in English upon a portion of the Pentateuch, and especially one of such merit. This I find superior to any other Commentary in any language upon Deuteronomy.”
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Judges. By Rev. George Foot Moore, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Theology in Harvard University.
“The work is done in an atmosphere of scholarly interest and indifference to dogmatism and controversy, which is at least refreshing.... It is a noble introduction to the moral forces, ideas and influences that controlled the period of the Judges, and a model of what a historical commentary, with a practical end in view, should be.”—The Independent.
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The Books of Samuel. By Rev. Henry Preserved Smith, D.D., Professor of Old Testament Literature and History of Religion, Meadville, Pa.
“Professor Smith’s Commentary will for some time be the standard work on Samuel, and we heartily congratulate him on scholarly work so faithfully accomplished.”—The Athenæum.
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The Book of Psalms. By Charles Augustus Briggs, D.D., D.Litt., Graduate Professor of Theological Encyclopædia and Symbolics, Union Theological Seminary, New York, and Emilie Grace Briggs, B.D.
“Christian scholarship seems here to have reached the highest level yet attained in study of the book which in religious importance stands next to the Gospels. His work upon it is not likely to be excelled in learning, both massive and minute, by any volume of the International Series, to which it belongs.”—The Outlook.
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Proverbs. By the Rev. Crawford H. Toy, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Hebrew in Harvard University.
“This volume has the same characteristics of thoroughness and painstaking scholarship as the preceding issues of the series. In the critical treatment of the text, in noting the various readings and the force of the words in the original Hebrew, it leaves nothing to be desired.”
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Amos and Hosea. By William Rainey Harper, Ph.D., LL.D., late Professor of Semitic Languages and Literature and President of the University of Chicago.
“He has gone, with characteristic minuteness, not only into the analysis and discussion of each point, endeavoring in every case to be thoroughly exhaustive, but also into the history of exegesis and discussion. Nothing at all worthy of consideration has been passed by. The consequence is that when one carefully studies what has been brought together in this volume, either upon some passage of the two prophets treated, or upon some question of critical or antiquarian importance in the introductory portion of the volume, one feels that he has obtained an adequately exhaustive view of the subject.”—The Interior.
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Esther. By L. B. Paton, Ph.D., Professor of Hebrew, Hartford Theological Seminary.
This scholarly and critical commentary on the Book of Esther presents in full the remarkable additions to the Massoretic text and the variations in the various versions beginning with the Greek translation and continuing through the Vulgate and Peshitto down to the Talmud and Targums. These are not given in full in any other commentary, yet they are very important both for the history of the text and the history of the exegesis.
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Ecclesiastes. By George A. Barton, Ph.D., Professor of Biblical Literature, Bryn Mawr College, Pa.
“It is a relief to find a commentator on Ecclesiastes who is not endeavoring to defend some new theory. This volume, in the International Commentary series, treats the book in a scholarly and sensible fashion, presenting the conclusions of earlier scholars together with the author’s own, and providing thus all the information that any student needs.”—The Congregationalist.
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St. Matthew. By the Rev. Willoughby C. Allen, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
“As a microscopic and practically exhaustive study and itemized statement of the probable or possible sources of the Synoptic Gospels and of their relations, one to another, this work has not been surpassed. I doubt if it has been equaled. And the author is not by any means lacking in spiritual insight.”—The Methodist Review (Nashville).
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St. Mark. By the Rev. E. P. Gould, D.D., sometime Professor of New Testament Exegesis, P. E. Divinity School, Philadelphia.
“The whole make-up is that of a thoroughly helpful, instructive critical study of the Word, surpassing anything of the kind ever attempted in the English language, and to students and clergymen knowing the proper use of a commentary it will prove an invaluable aid.”—The Lutheran Quarterly.
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St. Luke. By the Rev. Alfred Plummer, D.D., sometime Master of University College, Durham.
“We are pleased with the thoroughness and scientific accuracy of the interpretations.... It seems to us that the prevailing characteristic of the book is common sense, fortified by learning and piety.”—The Herald and Presbyter.
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Romans. By the Rev. William Sanday, D.D., LL.D., Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and the Rev. A. C. Headlam, M.A., D.D., Principal of Kings College, London.
“We do not hesitate to commend this as the best commentary on Romans yet written in English. It will do much to popularize this admirable and much needed series, by showing that it is possible to be critical and scholarly and at the same time devout and spiritual, and intelligible to plain Bible readers.”—The Church Standard.
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Ephesians and Colossians. By the Rev. T. K. Abbott, D.D., D.Litt., formerly Professor of Biblical Greek, now of Hebrew, Trinity College, Dublin.
“An able and independent piece of exegesis, and one that none of us can afford to be without. It is the work of a man who has made himself master of this theme. His exegetical perceptions are keen, and we are especially grateful for his strong defense of the integrity and apostolicity of these two great monuments of Pauline teaching.”—The Expositor.
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Philippians and Philemon. By Rev. Marvin R. Vincent, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature in Union Theological Seminary, New York.
“Professor Vincent’s Commentary appears to me not less admirable for its literary merit than for its scholarship and its clear and discriminating discussions of the contents of these Epistles.”—Dr. George P. Fisher.
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St. Peter and St. Jude. By the Rev. Charles Bigg, D.D., sometime Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University, New York.
“The careful and thorough student will find here a vast amount of information most helpful to him in his studies and researches. The international Critical Commentary, to which it belongs, will prove a great boon to students and ministers.”—The Canadian Congregationalist.
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Genesis. By the Rev. John Skinner, D.D., Principal and Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature, College of Presbyterian Church of England, Cambridge, England.
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The Books of Chronicles. By the Rev. Edward L. Curtis, Ph.D., D.D., Professor of Hebrew, Yale University, and Rev. Albert A. Madsen, Ph.D.
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The International Theological Library
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THEOLOGY has made great and rapid advances in recent years. New lines of investigation have been opened up, fresh light has been cast upon many subjects of the deepest interest, and the historical method has been applied with important results. This has prepared the way for a Library of Theological Science, and has created the demand for it. It has also made it at once opportune and practicable now to secure the services of specialists in the different departments of Theology, and to associate them in an enterprise which will furnish a record of Theological inquiry up to date.
This Library is designed to cover the whole field of Christian Theology. Each volume is to be complete in itself, while, at the same time, it will form part of a carefully planned whole. One of the Editors is to prepare a volume of Theological Encyclopædia which will give the history and literature of each department, as well as of Theology as a whole.
The Library is intended to form a series of Text-Books for Students of Theology.
The Authors, therefore, aim at conciseness and compactness of statement. At the same time, they have in view that large and increasing class of students, in other departments of inquiry, who desire to have a systematic and thorough exposition of Theological Science. Technical matters will therefore be thrown into the form of notes, and the text will be made as readable and attractive as possible.
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THEOLOGICAL ENCYCLOPÆDIA. By Charles A. Briggs, D.D., D.Litt., Professor of Theological Encyclopædia and Symbolics, Union Theological Seminary, New York.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. By S. R. Driver, D.D., D.Litt., Regius Professor of Hebrew and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
[Revised and Enlarged Edition.
CANON AND TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. By Francis Crawford Burkitt, M.A., Norrisian Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY. By Henry Preserved Smith, D.D., Professor of Old Testament Literature, Meadville, Pa.
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CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. By Francis Brown, D.D., LL.D., D.Litt., President and Professor of Hebrew, Union Theological Seminary, New York.
THEOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. By A. B. Davidson, D.D., LL.D., sometime Professor of Hebrew, New College, Edinburgh.
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERATURE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By Rev. James Moffatt, B.D., Minister United Free Church, Dundonald, Scotland.
CANON AND TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By Caspar René Gregory, D.D., LL.D., Professor of New Testament Exegesis in the University of Leipzig.
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THE LIFE OF CHRIST. By William Sanday, D.D., LL.D., Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE APOSTOLIC AGE. By Arthur C. McGiffert, D.D., Professor of Church History, Union Theological Seminary, New York.
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CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By Frank C. Porter, D.D., Professor of Biblical Theology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
THEOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By George B. Stevens, D.D., sometime Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY. By G. Buchanan Gray, D.D., Professor of Hebrew, Mansfield College, Oxford.
THE ANCIENT CATHOLIC CHURCH. By Robert Rainy, D.D., LL.D., sometime Principal of New College, Edinburgh.
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THE EARLY LATIN CHURCH.
[Author to be announced later.
THE LATER LATIN CHURCH.
[Author to be announced later.
THE GREEK AND EASTERN CHURCHES. By W. F. Adeney, D.D., Principal of Independent College, Manchester.
[Now Ready.
THE REFORMATION. By T. M. Lindsay, D.D., Principal of the United Free College, Glasgow.
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CHRISTIANITY IN LATIN COUNTRIES SINCE THE COUNCIL OF TRENT. By Paul Sabatier, D.Litt.
SYMBOLICS. By Charles A. Briggs, D.D., D.Litt., Professor of Theological Encyclopædia and Symbolics, Union Theological Seminary, New York.
HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. By G. P. Fisher, D.D., LL.D., sometime Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
[Revised and Enlarged Edition.
CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS. By A. V. G. Allen, D.D., sometime Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.
[Now Ready.
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. By Robert Flint, D.D., LL.D., sometime Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh.
THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS. By George F. Moore, D.D., LL.D., Professor in Harvard University.
APOLOGETICS. By A. B. Bruce, D.D., sometime Professor of New Testament Exegesis, Free Church College, Glasgow.
[Revised and Enlarged Edition.
THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF GOD. By William N. Clarke, D.D., Professor of Systematic Theology, Hamilton Theological Seminary.
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THE DOCTRINE OF MAN. By William P. Paterson, D.D., Professor of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.
THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST. By H. R. Mackintosh, Ph.D., Professor of Systematic Theology, New College, Edinburgh.
THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF SALVATION. By George B. Stevens, D.D., sometime Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale University.
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THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. By William Adams Brown, D.D., Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary, New York.
CHRISTIAN ETHICS. By Newman Smyth, D.D., Pastor of Congregational Church, New Haven.
[Revised and Enlarged Edition.
THE CHRISTIAN PASTOR AND THE WORKING CHURCH. By Washington Gladden, D.D., Pastor of Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio.
[Now Ready.
THE CHRISTIAN PREACHER. The Rev. A. E. Garvie, M.A., D.D., Principal of New College, London, England.
RABBINICAL LITERATURE. By S. Schechter, M.A., President of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City.
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VOLUMES NOW READY
An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament. By Professor S. R. Driver, D.D., D.Litt.
“As a whole there is probably no book in the English Language equal to this ‘Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament,’ for the student who desires to understand what the modern criticism thinks about the Bible.”—Dr. Lyman Abbott, in The Outlook.
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A History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age. By Arthur C. McGiffert, Ph.D., D.D.
“The clearness, self-consistency, and force of the whole impression of Apostolic Christianity with which we leave this book goes far to guarantee its permanent value and success.”—The Expositor.
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Christian Ethics. By Newman Smyth, D.D.
“As this book is the latest, so it is the fullest and most attractive treatment of the subject that we are familiar with. Patient and exhaustive in its method of inquiry, and stimulating and suggestive in the topic it handles, we are confident that it will be a help to the task of the moral understanding and interpretation of human life.”—The Living Church.
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Apologetics; or, Christianity Defensively Stated. By Alexander Balmain Bruce, D.D.
“We have not for a long time taken a book in hand that is more stimulating to faith.... Without commenting further, we repeat that this volume is the ablest, most scholarly, most advanced, and sharpest defence of Christianity that has ever been written. No theological library should be without it.”—Zion’s Herald.
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Old Testament History. By Henry Preserved Smith, D.D.
“Prof. Smith has, by his comprehensive and vitalized history, laid all who care for the Old Testament under great obligations.”—The Independent.
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The Ancient Catholic Church. By Robert Rainy, D.D., LL.D.
“As a comprehensive work on the formative stage of the Church’s experience the volume will easily find its place in the front rank among books on the subject composed in the English language.”—The Interior.
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The Reformation in Germany. By Thomas M. Lindsay, M.A., D.D.
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The Reformation in Lands Beyond Germany. By Thomas M. Lindsay, D.D.
“Together these two volumes will at once take their place as the classical English History of the Reformation.”—The Expository Times.
“The good balance of material which he has attained by a self-denying exclusion, as well as by much research and inclusion of fresh material, makes the work a real addition to our materials for study.”—The Congregationalist.
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Canon and Text of the New Testament. By Casper René Gregory, D.D., LL.D.
“The book is a treasury of learning, and its fairness in dealing with the matter in hand is admirable. From first to last, the purpose of the author is not to show upon how slight basis our confidence in the canonicity of the New Testament is based, but rather upon how solid a foundation our confidence rests.”—Journal and Messenger.
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The Greek and Eastern Churches. By Walter F. Adeney, M.A., D.D.
“It seems to me an excellent and most useful piece of work. I do not know anything in English which covers the same ground and am sure Dr. Adeney has put us all in his debt by his scholarly, well-balanced and judicious treatment.”—Prof. William Adams Brown.
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The Christian Doctrine of God. By William N. Clarke, D.D.
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The Theology of the New Testament. By George B. Stevens, D.D., LL.D.
“It is a fine example of painstaking, discriminating, impartial research and statement.”—The Congregationalist.
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History of Christian Doctrine. By George P. Fisher, D.D., LL.D.
“It is only just to say that Dr. Fisher has produced the best History of Doctrine that we have in English.”—The New York Evangelist.
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The Christian Pastor and the Working Church. By Washington Gladden, D.D., LL.D.
“A comprehensive, inspiring and helpful guide to a busy pastor. One finds in it a multitude of practical suggestions for the development of the spiritual and working life of the Church, and the answer to many problems that are a constant perplexity to the faithful minister.”—The Christian Intelligencer.
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Christian Institutions. By Alexander V. B. Allen, D.D.
“Professor Allen’s Christian Institutions may be regarded as the most important permanent contribution which the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States has yet made to general theological thought.”—The American Journal of Theology.
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The Theology of the Old Testament. By A. B. Davidson, D.D., LL.D., D.Litt.
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The Christian Doctrine of Salvation. By George B. Stevens, D.D., LL.D.
“Professor Stevens has performed a task of great importance, certain to exert wide and helpful influence in settling the minds of men. He has treated the subject historically and has given to Christ the first place in interpreting his own mission.”—Congregationalist and Christian World.
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