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Times--II. _The Historical Books_--4. The Authors and Exact Date of Many of them
Unknown--Important Historical Documents were deposited in the Sanctuary--5. The
Authors of the Books of Joshua and Judges made Use of such Documents--6. The Author
of the Books of Samuel also--7. Original Sources for the Books of Kings and
Chronicles--8. These Two Works refer not to Each Other, but to a Larger Collection of
Original Documents--9. Character of these Documents--They were written, in Part at
Least, by Prophets, and they all come to us with the Stamp of Prophetic Authority.--10.
The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther--III. _The Prophetical Books_--11. The Books
enumerated--Paucity of Prophets before Samuel--Schools of the Prophets established by
him--The Prophets a Distinct Order of Men in the Theocracy from his Day onward--12.
The Era of Written Prophecy--IV. _The Poetical Books_--13. Their General
Character--The Book of Job--14. The Book of Psalms--15. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and
Canticles--_Completion of the Canon_--16. Preservation of the Sacred Books to the Time
of Ezra--The Law; the Prophetical Books; the Psalms and other Canonical Writings--17.
The Completion of the Canon ascribed by the Jews to Ezra and his Coadjutors--This
Tradition True for Substance.--No Psalms written in the Maccabean Age--18. Contents of
the Hebrew Canon--as given by Jesus the Son of Sirach, by Josephus, by Origen and
Eusebius, by Jerome--19. The Apocryphal Books

CHAPTER XVI.
ANCIENT VERSIONS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. I. _The Greek Version called the
Septuagint_--1. Its Antiquity; its Great Influence on the Language of the New
Testament--2. Jewish Account of its Origin--3. Judgment of Biblical Scholars on this
Account--4. Time occupied in the Completion of the Work--5. Inequalities of this
Version--Its Importance to the Biblical Student--6. Its Close Connection with the New
Testament-- Quotations from it by New Testament Writers--Their Manner and Spirit-- 7.
Hebrew Text from which this Version was made--II. _Other Greek Versions_--8. The
Septuagint originally in High Esteem among the Jews--Change in their Feelings in
Regard to it, and Rise of New Versions--9. Aquila's Version--10. Theodotion--11.
Symniachus--12. Origen's Labors on the Text of the Septuagint--the Tetrapla and
Hexapla--III. _The Chaldee Targums_--13. General Remarks on these--14. The Targum
of Onkelos--Its General Fidelity and Excellence--Its Peculiarities--Jewish Tradition
respecting Onkelos--15. The Targum of Jonathan Ben Uzziel--16. Of Pseudo-Jonathan

and Jerusalem--17. Other Targums--The Samaritan Version of the Samaritan
Pentateuch--IV. 18. _The Syriac Peshito_--Its Age and Character

CHAPTER XVII.
CRITICISM OF THE SACRED TEXT. 1. The Object to ascertain its Primitive Form--2.
Means at Our Disposal--Ancient Hebrew Manuscripts--Remarks on their Quality and
Age--3. Ancient Versions--4. Primary Printed Editions--5. Parallel Passages--6.
Quotations from the Old Testament in the New--7. Quotations in the Talmud and by
Rabbinical Writers--8. Critical Conjecture
SECOND DIVISION--PARTICULAR INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER XVIII.
THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AS A WHOLE. 1. Province of Particular
Introduction--The Necessity of Understanding the Unity of Divine Revelation--2.
Relation of the Old Testament as a Whole to the System of Revelation--It is a Preparatory,
Introductory to a Final Revelation, of which the Gospel everywhere avails itself--the
Unity of God; Vicarious Sacrifice; General Principles; Well-developed State of
Civilization-- Connection of the Hebrews with the Great World Powers--Their Dispersion
through the Nations at our Lord's Advent--Relation of the Gospel to Civilization--3. A
Knowledge of the Preparatory Character of the Old Testament Revelations enables us to
judge correctly concerning them-- Severity of the Mosaic Laws; Their Burdensome
Multiplicity; Objection from their Exclusive Character answered--4. Office of each
Division of the Old Testament Revelations--the Pentateuch; the Historical Books; the
Prophetical Books--Character and Officers of the Hebrew Prophets-- Era of Written
Prophecy--The Poetical Books--5. Each Particular Book has its Office--6. The Old
Testament was a Revelation for the Men of its Own Age, as well as for those of Future
Ages--the Promise made to Abraham; the Deliverance from Egypt; the Mosaic Law; the
Words of the Prophets; the Psalms of David: the Wisdom of Solomon--7. Value of the
Old Testament Revelations to us--the System of Divine Revelation can be understood
only as a Whole; Constant Reference of the New Testament to the Old; the Old
Testament a Record of God's Dealings with Men; the Principles embodied in the
Theocracy Eternal; the Manifold Wisdom of God seen only when the Whole System of
Revelation is studied

CHAPTER XIX.
THE PENTATEUCH. I. Its Unity--Its Fivefold Division--1. _Genesis_--2. Its Hebrew
Name--Its Greek Name--3. Its Office--It is the Introductory Book of the Pentateuch--Its

Connection with the Following Books--4. Divisions of the Book of Genesis--First Part
and its Contents; Second Part and its Contents--5. Its Mosaic Authorship--Supposed
Traces of a Later Hand--6. Difficulties connected with the Pentateuch--Scientific
Difficulties: the Six Days of Creation; the Age of the Antediluvian Patriarchs; the Unity
of the Human Race; the Deluge--Historical Difficulties: the Two Accounts of the
Creation; Cain's Wife-- Chronological Difficulties: Discrepancies between the Masoretic
Hebrew, the Samaritan Hebrew, and the Septuagint, in Respect to (1)