Author: Richard Green Moulton
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-21
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780483526969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature: Edited, With an Introduction and Notes One book that has a place in the historic sequence of the Bible introduces us in reality to a different class of literature - Oratory. Deuteronomy is made up of the Orations (and Songs) of Moses, constituting his Farewell to the People of Israel. It is oratory in the fullest sense of the term, representing the words as they may be sup posed to come direct from the speaker. For the most part however the sacred literature of oratory is of a different kind not exact reports of spoken words, but the substance, it may be, of several similar speeches worked up afresh into a form of written discourse. In this wider sense, the ora torical literature of the Bible is of considerable extent; it includes the prophetic discourses, and reflects the fervid contests over first principles of righteousness which con stituted the main life of Israel. The principal varieties of Biblical oratory are illustrated in this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Richard Moulton
Publisher:
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780692422441
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Author: Richard Green Moulton
Publisher:
Published: 2021-08-23
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Book Excerpt :...That which we call 'The Bible' has the outward appearance of a book: in reality it is--what the word 'bible' implies in the original Greek--a whole library. More than fifty books, the production of a large number of different authors, representing periods of time extending over many centuries, are all comprehended between the covers of a single volume. There is no greater monument of the power of printing to diffuse thought than this fact, that the whole classic literature of one of the world's greatest peoples can be carried about in the hand or the pocket.But there is another side to the matter. A high price has been paid for this feat of manufacturing a portable literature: no less a price than the effacement from the books of the Bible of their whole literary structure. Where the literature is dramatic, there are (except in one book) no names of speakers nor divisions of speeches; there are no titles to essays or poems, nor anything to mark where one poem or discourse ends and another begins; not only is there nothing to reflect finer rhythmic distinctions in poetry, but (in King James's version) there is not even a distinction made between poetry and prose. It is as if the whole were printed 'solid,' like a newspaper without the newspaper headings. The most familiar English literature treated in this fashion would lose a great part of its literary interest; the writings of the Hebrews suffer still more through our unfamiliarity with many of the literary forms in which they are cast. Even this statement does not fully represent the injury done to the literature of the Bible by the traditional shape in which it is presented to us. Between the Biblical writers and our own times have intervened ages in which all interest in literary beauty was lost, and philosophic activity took the form of protracted discussions of brief sayings or 'texts.' Accordingly this solidified matter of Hebrew literature has been divided up into single sentences or 'verses,' numbered mechanically one, two, three, etc., and thus the original literary form has still further been obscured. It is not surprising that to most readers the Bible has become, not a literature, but simply a storehouse of pious 'texts....
Author: Richard G. Moulton,
Publisher:
Published: 2015-10-20
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781518696329
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The effect of these changes back to the original forms under which the sacred writings first appeared will be, for the vast majority of readers, a surprise and delight; they will feel as if they had come upon new spiritual and intellectual treasures, and they will appreciate for the first time how much the Bible has suffered from the hands of those who have treated it without reference to its literary quality. In view of the significance and possible results of Professor Moulton's undertaking, it is not too much to pronounce it one of the most important spiritual and literary events of the times. It is part of the renaissance of Biblical study; but it may mean, and in our judgment it does mean, the renewal of a fresh and deep impression of the beauty and power of the supreme spiritual writing of the world." -The Outlook, New York "It must be that this natural and rational arrangement of the different styles of literature in the Bible will commend the book itself to people who have hitherto neglected it, and give to those who have read it and studied it with the greatest diligence, new satisfaction and delight." -John, H. Vincent, Chancellor of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle "Well selected and excellently edited…And no mere literature so impresses the ordinary mind as the Church Lessons, if well read, especially those for the more important Christian seasons. The Psalms are a constant joy, and the grand chapters of Isaiah an inalienable possession of the soul….The notes of a judicious editor show how and why the Christian's Bible, even as literature, surpasses all other literatures under the sun…In the notes, the parallelism of Hebrew poetry is explained, and attention called to the characteristic beauties of both its noble matter and its high-wrought and elaborate form. The editor is to be commended for having furnished a series of volumes helpful to all Bible readers, especially the young." -The Church Eclectic: A Monthly Magazine of Church Literature and ..., Volume 25, 1897 "Unquestionably here is a task worth carrying out; and it is to be said at once that Dr. Moulton has carried it out with great skill and helpfulness. Both the introduction and the notes are distinct contributions to the better understanding and higher appreciation of the literary character, features, and beauties of the Biblical books treated." -Presbyterian and Reformed Review
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher:
Published: 1992-03-17
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A pioneer in the burgeoning movement to understand the Bible as literature assesses the spate of new developments in this area. Robert Alter reflects on the paradoxes inherent in considering this great religious work as literature.