The Sceptics of the Old Testament Job

Fiction & Literature, Classics

• Author: E. J. Dillon
• ISBN: 1230000271470
• Publisher: The Perfect Library
• Publication: October 1, 2014
• Language: English

The Sceptics of the Old Testament Job
E. J. Dillon, author, journalist and linguist (1854-1933)

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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- DEDICATION
-03- DEDICATORY NOTE
-04- PREFACE
-05- THE POEM OF JOB
-06- HEBREW PHILOSOPHY
-07- THE PROBLEM OF THE POEM
-08- JOB'S METHOD OF SOLVING THE PROBLEM
-09- DATE OF THE COMPOSITION
-10- THE TEXT AND ITS RECONSTRUCTION
-11- INTERPOLATIONS
-12- JOB'S THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTIONS
-13- ANALYSIS OF THE POEM
-14- KOHELETH
-15- CONDITION OF THE TEXT
-16- PRIMITIVE FORM OF THE BOOK
-17- KOHELET'S THEORY OF LIFE
-18- PRACTICAL WISDOM
-19- KOHELETH'S PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
-20- THE SOURCES OF KOHELETH'S PHILOSOPHY
-21- AGURTHE AGNOSTIC
-22- AGUR SON OF YAKEH
-23- FORM AND CONTENTS OF THE SAYINGS OF AGUR
-24- DATE OF COMPOSITION
-25- AGUR'S PHILOSOPHY
-26- THE POEM OF JOB
-27- PROLOGUE
-28- EPILOGUE
-29- THE SPEAKER
-30- PART I. THE SPEAKER
-31- PROOFS OF THE VANITY OF POSSESSION AND ENJOYMENT
-32- PROOFS OF THE VANITY OF KNOWLEDGE
-33- PROOFS OF THE VANITY OF WISDOM IN ITS RELIGIOUS AND MORAL ASPECTS
-34- PROOFS OF THE VANITY OF WISDOM IN ITS ASPECT AS PRUDENCE AND PRACTICAL
-35- PART II. THE SPEAKER
-36- RECOMMENDATION OF THE RELATIVE GOOD
-37- RECOMMENDATION OF WISDOM AS RATIONAL PIETY
-38- RECOMMENDATION OF WISDOM AS ACTIVITY
-39- RECOMMENDATION OF WISDOM AS CIRCUMSPECTION
-40- THE SAYINGS OF AGUR
-41- FIRST SAYING. ON GOD
-42- SECOND SAYING. ON FOUR INSATIABLE THINGS
-43- THIRD SAYING OF AGUR. ON FOUR INSCRUTABLE THINGS
-44- FOURTH SAYING. FOUR INSUPPORTABLE THINGS
-45- FIFTH SAYING. FOUR WHO STRIDE MAJESTICALLY
-46- SIXTH SENTENCE. EXHORTATION TO DENOUNCE AMBITION