The Johns Hopkins University Circular Volume 13-14 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...napalus against Egypt and Ethiopia (V R. 2, 28-48). Comment especially on (a) Hihubu, % (6) innabit, (c) the last but one word of 1. 47. (3) Give a Hebrew translation of the following cuneiform sentences: IT T % fc. H.gffig Y w --fcjr r =mr e=? f &k Nth-mr. Report on Mr. D. G. Stevens' Thesis, entitled The Songs of the Return. By Professor Geo. F. Moore. The thesis which has been submitted to me is a " Critical Commentary on the Songs of the Return, with an Historical Introduction, Linguistic Notes, a Review of the Versions, and three Indices." In the first part of the Introduction (p. 6-54), the author discusses the title shir hamaaloth prefixed to each of these Psalms. The numerous and diverse interpretations of this title are divided into four classes: 1. those which treat it allegorically; 2. those which explain it as a technical designation of some peculiarity in the metrical or rhetorical structure of the poems; 3. those which take it;is a liturgical note indicating the place or occasion on which they were recited; 4. those which find in it a reference to the time or circumstances in which they were composed. This comprehensive review of the history of interpretation is painstaking and intelligent; the criticism of the proposed explanations generally clear and to the point. The theory which the author adopts, as indicated by the title of his thesis, is that these Psalms are " Songs of the Return," using the last word somewhat widely for the period of the Jewish restoration between 538 and 432 B. c. With a number of other scholars he thinks that the title properly belonged to the collection, Ps. 120-134, as a whole; and that the repetition of the words before each of the pieces composing it was the work of an editor or scri...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...napalus against Egypt and Ethiopia (V R. 2, 28-48). Comment especially on (a) Hihubu, % (6) innabit, (c) the last but one word of 1. 47. (3) Give a Hebrew translation of the following cuneiform sentences: IT T % fc. H.gffig Y w --fcjr r =mr e=? f &k Nth-mr. Report on Mr. D. G. Stevens' Thesis, entitled The Songs of the Return. By Professor Geo. F. Moore. The thesis which has been submitted to me is a " Critical Commentary on the Songs of the Return, with an Historical Introduction, Linguistic Notes, a Review of the Versions, and three Indices." In the first part of the Introduction (p. 6-54), the author discusses the title shir hamaaloth prefixed to each of these Psalms. The numerous and diverse interpretations of this title are divided into four classes: 1. those which treat it allegorically; 2. those which explain it as a technical designation of some peculiarity in the metrical or rhetorical structure of the poems; 3. those which take it;is a liturgical note indicating the place or occasion on which they were recited; 4. those which find in it a reference to the time or circumstances in which they were composed. This comprehensive review of the history of interpretation is painstaking and intelligent; the criticism of the proposed explanations generally clear and to the point. The theory which the author adopts, as indicated by the title of his thesis, is that these Psalms are " Songs of the Return," using the last word somewhat widely for the period of the Jewish restoration between 538 and 432 B. c. With a number of other scholars he thinks that the title properly belonged to the collection, Ps. 120-134, as a whole; and that the repetition of the words before each of the pieces composing it was the work of an editor or scri...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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March 2012

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March 2012

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246 x 189 x 14mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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268

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978-1-130-37817-7

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9781130378177

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1-130-37817-9



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