AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. by W. O. E. Oesterley, D.D., Litt.D.,& T. H. Robinson, D.D., Litt.D. Hon. D.D. (Aberdeen), Hon. D.Th. (Halle Wittenberg). © W O E Oesterley & T H Robinson 1934. First published SPCK. 1934. - This edition prepared for katapi by Paul Ingram 2003. | HOME

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following list of works does not profess to be exhaustive; with every book mentioned one or other of us is more or less familiar; articles in learned journals are not included, but in many cases references in footnotes indicate them.

There are a number of series of Commentaries, both English and German; many volumes from these find mention below, but we cannot profess to be familiar with all of them. These series are:

The International Critical Commentary (ICC) The Cambridge Bible (Camb. B) The Westminster Commentaries (W. Cam.) The Century Bible (CB) Nowack's Series: "Handkommentar zum Alten Testament" (HKAT) Kautzsch-Bertholet's Series: "Die heilige Schriften des Alten Testaments" (HSAT) Marti's Series: "Kurzer Hand-Commentar zurn Alten Testament" (KHAT) Sellin's Series: "Kommentar zum Alten Testament" (KAT) Eissfeldt's Series: "Handbuch zum Alten Testament" (HAT) Gressmann and others: "Die Schriften des Alten Testaments" (SAT)

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BOOKS ON INTRODUCTION

Bertholet, Kulturgeschichte Israels (1920); Engl. ed.: Ancient Hebrew Civilization (1926) Bewer, The Literature of the Old Testament in its Historical Development (1922) Bleek, Einleitung in das Alle Testament (1886) Budde, Geschichte der Althebraischen Litteratur (1906) Cornill, Einleitung in das Alte Testament (1896); English edition by G. H. Box (1907) Creelman, Introduction to the Old Testament (1917) Driver, An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament (1913) Eissfeldt, Einleitung in das alte Testament (1934) Gray, A Critical Introduction to the Old Testament (1927) Hempel, Die Althebraische Literatur, in " Handbuch der Literatur-Wissen -schaft " (undated) (not yet completed) Kent, Growth and Contents of the Old Testament (1926) McFadyen, Introduction to the Old Testament (1932) Meinhold, Einfuhrung in das lie Testament (1932) Moore, The Literature of the Old Testament (1913) Sellin, Introduction to the Old Testament (1923) ; latest German ed. 1933 Steuernagel, Lehrbuch der Einleitung in das Alte Testament (1912) Strack, Einleitung in das Alte Testament (1906)
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THE CANON OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

Budde, Der Kanon des Alien Testamentes (1900) Buhl, Kanon und Text dos Alien Testamentes (1891) Eberharter, Der Kanon des Alien Testamentes bis zur Zeit des Ben-Sira (1911) Holscher, Kanonisch und Apokryph (1905) Robertson Smith, The Old Testament in the Jewish Church (1892) Ryle, The Canon of the Old Testament (1895) Wildeboer, The Origin of the Canon of the Old Testament (1895) Bauer-Leander, Historische Grammalik der Hebraischen Sprache, 1. Band, pp. i-55 (1922) Bertholet, Kulturgeschichte Israels (1920); English edition: Ancient Hebrew Civilization (1926) Geden, Outlines of Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (1909) Ginsburg, Introduction to Me Hebrew Bible (1897) Kahle, Masoreten des Ostens (1913) -Masoreten des Westens (1927) Ottley, A Handbook to the Septuagint (1920) Swete, Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek (1900) Weir, A Short History of the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament (1907)
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THE PENTATEUCH

Addis, The Documents of the Hexateuch, Vol. 1 (1892), Vol. 11 (1898) Battersby-Harford, Since Wellhausen (1926) Carpenter and Harford-Battersby, The Composition of the Hexateuch (1892) - The Pentateuch (1900) Chapman, An Introduction to the Pentateuch (1911) Eerdmans, Alttestamentliche Studien (1908) Eissfeldt, Hexateuchsynopse (1922) HoIzinger, Einleitung in den Hexateuch (1893) Jirku, Das weltliche Rechs im Alien Testament (1927) Klostermann, Der Pentateuch (1907) Simpson, Pentateuchal Criticism (1924) Smith, J. M. R, The Origin and History of Hebrew Law (1931) Wellhausen, Die Composition des Hexateuchs ... (1889)


GENESIS:

Driver, S. It., The Book of Genesis (1904) W. Com.; rev. by G. R. Driver (1926) Gunkel, Genesis (1910) HKAT Procksch, Genesis 1913) KAT Skinner, A Genesis and Exegetical Commentary on Genesis (1912)


EXODUS:

Bacon, The Triple Tradition of the Exodus (1894) Baentsch, Das Zweite Buch Mose (1903) HKAT Beer, Exodus (1939) HAT Driver, Exodus (1911) Camb. B. Holzinger, Exodus (1900) KHAT McNeile, The Book of Exodus (1908) W. Com.


LEVITICUS:

Baentsch, Leviticus (1903) HKAT Bertholet, Leviticus (1901) KHAT


NUMBERS:

Baentsch, Numeri (1903) HKAT Binns, The Book of Numbers (1927) W. Cam. Gray, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Numbers (1903) ICC Holzinger, Numeri (1903) KHAT


DEUTERONOMY:

Bertholet, Deuteronomium (1899) KHAT Driver, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Deuteronomy (1902) ICC

Kennett, Deuteronomy and the Decalogue (1920) Konig, Das Deuteronomium (1917) Puukko, Das Deuteronomium (1910) Robinson, H. Wheeler, Deuteronomy and Joshua (1907) Smith, G. A., Deuteronomy (1918) Camb. B Steuernagel, Das Deuteronomium (1923) HKAT Welch, The Code of Deuteronomy (1924) - Deuteronomy, the Framework (1924) Code (1932)
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THE BOOK OF JOSHUA

Cooke, G. A., Joshua (1918) Camb. B. Friedeberg, Joshua, an annotated Hebrew Text (1913) Garstang, Joshua, Judges (1931) Holmes, Joshua, the Hebrew and Greek Texts (1914) HoIzinger, Das Buch Josua (1901) KHAT Noth, Das Buch Josua (1938 HAT Steuernagel, Josua (1900) KHAT
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THE BOOK OF JUDGES

Budde, Dos Buch der Richter (1897) KHAT Burney, The Book of (1897) Cooke, G. A., judges (1918) Camb. B. Eissfeldt, Die Quellen dos Richterbuches (1925) Garstang, Joshua, judges (1931) Kittel, Dos Buch der Richter (1909) HSAT Moore, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on judges (1903) ICC Nowack, Das Buch der Richter (1902) HKAT
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THE BOOK OF RUTH

See under i, ii Samuel Kennedy, The Book of Ruth (1928): for the Hebrew Text
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I II SAMUEL

Budde, Die Bucher Samuelis (1902) KHAT Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Samuel (1913) Eissfeldt, Die Komposition der Samuelisbiicher (1931) Hylander, Der literarische Samuel-Saul-Komplex i Sam. i-xv (1933) Nowack, Richter, Ruth und Bucher Samuelis (1902) HKAT Smith, H. R, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books of Samuel (1899) ICC Wellhausen, Der Text der Bucher Samuelis (1871)
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I II KINGS

Benzinger, Die Bucher der Konige (1899) KHAT Burney, Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Kings (1903) Kittel, Das Buch der Konige (1900) HKAT Mowinckel, Die Chronologie der israelitischen und judischen Konige (1932)
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I II CHRONICLES

Benzinger, Die Bucher der Chronik (1901) KHAT Curtis, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books of Chronicles (1910) ICC Elmslie, Chronicles Camb. B. (1916) Kittel, Die Bucher der Chronik (1902) HKAT Rad, Das Geschichtsbild des Chronistischen Werkes (1930) Rothstein-Hanel, Das erste Buch der Chronik (1927)
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EZRA-NEHEMIAH

Batten, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah (1913) ICC Bertholet, Die Bucher Esra und Nehemia (1902) KHAT Browne, Early Judaism (1920) Oesterley and Robinson, A History of Israel, ii. pp.111 - 156 (1934) Rothstein, Juden und Samaritaner (1908) Siegfried, Esra, Nehemia, und Esther (1901) HKAT Torrey, Ezra Studies (1910) Van Hoonacker, Nehemie et Esdras (1892)
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THE BOOK OF ESTHER

Gunkel, Esther (1916) Paton, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Esther (1908) ICC Siegfried, Esra, Nehemia und Esther (1901) HKAT
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FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY

Burney, The Poetry of Our Lord (1925) Cobb, A Criticism of Systems of Hebrew Poetry (1905) Condamin, Poemes de la Bible ... (1933) Gordon, The Poets of the Old Testament (1912) Gray, Forms Hebrew Poetry (1915) Psalmenprobleme (1902) Kautzsch, Die Poesie und die poetischen Bucher des alien Testamentes (1902) Ley, Grundzuge des Rhythmus, des Vers- und Strophenbaues in der Hebraischen Poesie (1875) Leitfaden der Hebraischen Metrik (1887) Lowth, De sacra poesi Hebraeorum Praelectiones Academicae (1753); Eng. ed. (1843) Muller, D. H., Strophenbau und Responsion (1898) Rothstein, Grunzuge des hebraischen Rhythmus und seine Formenbildung (1909) Achlogl, Die echte biblisch-hebraische Metrik (1914) Sievers, Metrische Studien (1901)
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THE WISDOM LITERATURE

Baumgartner, Israelitische und altorientalische Weisheit (1933) Box and Oesterley, The Book of Sirach, in Charles'The Apocrypha and Pseud. epigrapha of the Old Testament, Vol. 1 (1913) Causse, Sagesse Egyptienne et sagesse juive (1929) Cheyne, Yob and Solomon (1887) Cowley, Jewish Documents of the time of Ezra (1919) Aramaic Papyri of the fifth century BC. (1923) Davison, The Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament (1894) Eissfeldt, Der Maschal im Alien Testament (1913) Elmslie, Studies in Life from Jewish Proverbs (2nd impression, undated) Erman, Die Literatur der Aegypter (1923); English translation by Blackman, The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians (1927) Fichtner, Die altorientalische Weisheit in ihrer Israelitisch-Judischen Auspragung (1933) Goodrick, The Book of Wisdom (1913) Gressmann, Israeli Spruchweisheit im Zusammenhang der Weltliteratur (1925) Humbert, Recherches sur les sources egyptiennes de la Litterature Sapientiale d'Israil (1929) Langdon, Babylonian Wisdom (1923) Lange, Das Weisheitsbuch des Amenemope (1925) Meinbold, Die Weisheit Israels (1908) Oesterley, The Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus (1912) Comb. B.

Ranston, The Old Testament Wisdom Books (1930) Schencke, Die Chokma (Sophia) in der judischen Hypostasenspekulation (1913) Smend, Die Weisheit dos Jesus Sirach (1906): Commentary Die Weisheit des Jesus Sirach, Hebraisch und Deutsch (1906); Text and translation
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THE BOOK OF JOB

Ball, The Book of Job (1922) Budde, Das Buch Hiob (1896) KHAT Cheyne, Job and Solomon (1881,) Dhorme, Le Livre de Hiob (1926) Dillmann, Das Buch Hiob (1891) Driver and Gray, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Job (1921) ICC Duhm, Das Buch Hiob (1897) KHAT Holscher, Das Buch Hiob (1937) HAT Kissane, The Book Hiob (1938) Konig, Das Buch Hiob (1929) Kraeling, The Book of the Ways of God (1938) Peake, Job (1905) Sellin, as Problem des Hiobbuches (1919) Strahan, The Book of Job interpreted (1913)
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THE PSALMS

Baethgen, Die Psalmen 904) HKAT Barnes, The Psalms, with Introduction and Notes (1931) W. Com. Briggs, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms (1906, 1907) ICC Buttenwieser, The Psalms (1938) Cales, Le Livre des Psaumes (1936) Cheyne, The Book of Psalms (1888)

Duhm, Die Psalmen (1899) KHAT Gunkel, Die Psalmen (1926) HKAT Gunkel-Begrich, Einleitung in die Psalmen (1928, 1933) James, Thirty Psalmists (1938) Kittel, Die Psalmen (1929) KAT Mowinckel, Psalmenstudien (1922, 1923) Oesterley, The Psalms, Book III, 73-89 (1933); Book IV, 90-106 (1936): for the Hebrew Text Peters, The Psalms as Liturgies (1922) Schmidt, Die Psalmen (1934) HAT Simpson, ed. by, The Psalmists (1926 Wutz, Die Psalmen textkritisch untersucht (1925)
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PROVERBS

Frankenberg, Die Spruche (1898) HKAT Gemser, Spruche Salomos (1937), HAT Kuhn, Beitrage zur ErkIarung des Salomonischen Spruchbuches (1931) Oesterley, The Book of Proverbs (1929) W. Com. Toy, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Proverbs (1914) ICC Wildeboer, Die Spruche. (1897) KHAT
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ECCLESIASTES

Barton, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Ecclesiastes (1908) ICC Ginsburg, Coheleth, commonly called the Book of Ecclesiastes ... (1861) Haupt, The Book of Ecclesiastes (1905) Hertzberg, Der Prediger (1932) KAT Kulm, larung des Buches Koheleth (1926) McNeile, An Introduction to Ecclesiastes, with Notes and Appendices (1904) Odeberg, Qoheleth (1930) Ranston, Ecclesiastes and the early Greek Wisdom Literature (1925)
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THE SONG OF SONGS

Budde, Das Hohelied (1898) Jastrow, The Song of Songs (1921) Rothstein, Das Hohelied (1893) Schoff, The Song of Songs: a Symposium (1924)
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPHETICAL LITERATURE

Bennett, The Post-Exilic Prophets (1907) Buttenwieser, The Prophets of Israel(1914) Cornill, Der Israelitische Prophetismus (1896); Engl. transl., The Prophets of Israel (1917) Davidson, Old Testament Prophecy (1912) Duhm, Israels Propheten (1916) Gordon, The Prophets of the Old Testament (1916) Holscher, Die Profeten (1914) Micklem, Prophecy and Eschatology (1926) Peake, The Roots of Hebrew Prophecy and Jewish Apocalyptic (1923) Robertson Smith, The Prophets of Israel (1897) Robinson, T. H., Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel (1928) Welch, The Religion of Israel under the Kingdom (1912)
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THE BOOK OF ISAIAH

Box, The Book of Isaiah (1908) Cheyne, Introduction to the Book of Isaiah (1895) Condamin, Le Livre d'Isaie ; Traduction critique avec notes et commentaires (1905) Duhm, Das Buch Jesaia (1914) HKAT Elliger, Die Einheit des Tritojesaia (1928) Gray, Isaiah i-xxvii (1912) 9 2) ICC Marti, Das Buch Jesaia (1910) KHAT Skinner, Isaiah xl-lxvi (1917) Cam. B. Torrey, The Second Isaiah (1928) Volz, Jesaia II (1932) KAT Wade, The Book of the Prophet Isaiah (1911) W. Com. Whitehouse, Isaiah (1908) CB
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THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH

Binns, The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah (1919) W. Com. Condamin, Le Livre de Jeremie: Traduction et Commentaire (1920) Cornill, Das Buch Jeremia (1905)

Driver, The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah (1906) Duhm, Das Buch Jeremia (1901) KHAT Erbt, Jeremia und seine Zeit (1902) Lofthouse, Jeremiah and the New Covenant (1925) Nestle, Das Buch Jeremia, Griechisch und Hebraisch (1924) Peake, Jeremiah (1912) CB Robinson, H. Wheeler, The Cross of Jeremiah (1925) Skinner, Prophecy and Religion : Studies in the life of Jeremiah (1922) Smith, G. A., Jeremiah (1924) Volz, Studien zum Text des Jeremia (1920) - Der Prophet Jeremia (1922) KAT
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THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS

Budde, Die Funf Megilloth (1898) KHAT Lohr, Klagelieder (1894) HKAT
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THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL

Bertholet, Hesskiel (1936) HAT Cooke, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Ezekiel (1938) ICC Cornhill, Dos Buch des Propheten Ezechiel (1897) Davidson, The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel (1906) Herntrich, Ezechielprobleme (1932) Herrmann, Ezechielstudien (1908) Ezechiel (1924) KAT Holscher, Hesekiel, der Dichter und dos Buch (1924) Jahn, Dos Buch Ezechiel auf Grund der LXX hergestellt (1905) Kessler, Die innere Einheitlichkeit des Buches Ezekiel (1926) Kraetzschmar, Dos Buch Ezechiel (1900) Rothstein, Das Buch Ezekiel (1922) Smend, Der Prophet Ezechiel (1880) Smith, James, The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel (1931) Torrey, Pseudo-Ezekiel and the Original Prophecy (1930)
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THE BOOK OF DANIEL

Bentzen, Daniel (1937) HAT Bevan, A Short Commentary on the Book of Daniel (1892) Charles, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel (1929) Driver, Daniel (1922) Comb. B. v. Gall, Die Einheitlichkeit des Buches Daniel (1895) Jahn, Dos Buch Daniel nach der LXX hergestellt (1904) Kuhl, Die Drei Manner im Feuer Q (1930) Marti, Das Buch Daniel (1901) KHAT Montgomery, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel (1927) ICC Welch, Visions of the End (1922)
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THE TWELVE MINOR PROPHETS

Marti, Dos Dodekapropheton (1904) KHAT Nowack, Die kleinen Propheten (1 97) HKAT Oesterley, Codex Taurinensis (Y) (1908): for the text of the Septuagint - The Old Latin Texts of the Minor Prophets (1905) Robinson and Horst, Die Zwolf Kleinen Propheten (1936-38) HAT Sellin, Dos Zwolfprophetenbuch (1922) KAT Smith, G. A., The Book of the Twelve Prophets (1895, (1905); rev. ed. 1928 Wellhausen, Die kleinen Propheten ... (1898)


HOSEA:

Allwolm, Die Ehe des Propheten Hosea in psychoanalytischer Beleuchtung (1926) Brown, The Book of Hosea (1932) W. Com. Cheyne, Hosea, with Notes and Introduction (1899) Comb. B. Harper, See under Amos Lindblom, Hosea literarisch undersucht (1927) Valeton. See under Amos


JOEL:

Driver, The Books of Joel and Amos (1898) Comb. B. Knieschke, Die Eschatologie dos Buches Joel in ihrer historischgeographischen Bestimmtheit (1912) Merx, Die Prophetie des Joel und ihre Ausleger von den altesten Zeiten bis zu den Reformatoren (1879)


AMOS:

Cripps, The Book of Amos (1929) Driver, See under Joel Harper, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Amos and Hosea (1905) ICC Oesterley, Studies in the Greek and Latin Versions of the Book of Amos (1902) Robinson, T. H., The Book of Amos (1928): for the Hebrew text Schmidt, Hans, Der Prophet Amos (1917) Valeton, Amos und Hosea (1898) Weiser, Die Prophetie des Amos (1929)


OBADIAH:

Wade, See under Micah


JONAH:

Doller, Dos Buch Jona (1912) Mitchell, Smith and Bewer, See under Haggai Schmidt, Hans, Jona, eine Untersuchung zur vergleichenden Religionsgischichte(1907) Wade, See under Micah


MICAH:

Cheyne, Micah, with Notes and Introduction (1895) Comb. B. Lindblom, Micha literarisch untersucht (1929) Wade, Micah, Obadiah, Joel, Jonah (1925) W. Com.


NAHUM:

Davidson, The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (1899) Comb. B. Driver, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi (undated) GB Stonehouse and Wade, See under Zephaniah


HABAKKUK:

Davidson, See under Nahum Driver, See under Nahum Duhm, Dos Buch Habakkuk (1906) Peiser, Der Prophet Habakkuk (1903) Stonehouse and Wade, See under Zephaniah


ZEPHANIAH:

Davidson, See under Nahum Driver, See under Nahum Stonehouse and Wade, Zephaniah, Nahum, and Habakkuk (1929) W. COM.


HAGGAI:

Mitchell, Smith and Bewer, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi and Jonah (1912) ICC Rothstein, Juden und Samaritaner (1908)


ZECHARIAH:

Mitchell, Smith and Bewer. See under Haggai Rothstein, Die Nachigesichte des Sacharja (1910) Sellin, Das Buch Zacharjas (1901)


MALACHI:

Mitchell, Smith and Bewer, See under Haggai
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