Research Catalog

Title

Lectures on the Pentateuch and the Moabite stone. With appendices containing I. The Elohistic narrative. II. The original story of the Exodus. III. The pre-Christian cross, its universality and meaning. By the Right Rev. John William Colenso.

Author

Colenso, John William, 1814-1883.

Publication

London, Longmans, Green, 1873.

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Details

Description

viii pages, 2 leaves, [3]-436 pages, 1 leaf frontispiece; 23 cm

Summary

These lectures are intended to lay before English readers, who cannot devote the time and thought needed for the study of larger and more technical works, the most important results of the criticism of the Pentateuch, and incidentally of other portions of the Hebrew scriptures. - Preface.

Subject

• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible
• Moabite stone

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Armorial bindings (Binding) – England – 19th century.
• Publishers' advertisements – 1873 – England.

Note

• "App.III ... [is] from the Edinburgh review for January 1870."--p. viii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Elohist and Jehovist in Genesis -- The age of the Elohist in Genesis -- The Jehovistic passages in Genesis -- The age of the Jehovist in Genesis -- The age of the Jehovist further considered -- The origin of the name Jehovah -- The age of the Jehovist in Numbers -- The Ten Commandments -- Human sacrifices in Israel -- The laws on the stone tables -- The book found in the temple -- Jeremiah the deuteronomist -- The contents of Deuteronomy -- The later or Levitical legislation -- The later legislation compared with the original story -- The late date of the Levitical legislation -- The ark and the priesthood in the original story -- The priests and the Levites -- The origin of the Pesach or Passover -- The real history of the exodus of Israel -- The worship of the Baal in Israel -- The historical books from Genesis to the Second Book of Kings -- The books of Ezra and Nehemiah -- The fictions of the Chronicler -- The Moabite Stone -- Concluding remarks.

LCCN

• 40037766
• urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11158467-2
• ocm02685070

OCLC

• ocm02685070
• 2685070
• SCSB-703642

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library