The historical importance of the Books of Samuel must be evident to the least attentive reader. How much this implies will be seen if we suppose the names of Samuel, Saul, and David blotted out of our history of Israel.
The preparation of this volume has occupied my available time for several years. The task pproved unexpectedly big, for I discoverd early in my studies that Ezra - Nehemiah bristled with hard problems which had not really been solved.
Deuteronomy is one of the most attractive, as it is also one of the most important, books of the Old Testament; and a commentary which may render even approximate justice to its many- sided content has for long been a desideratum in English theological literature.
This volume completes the series of commentaries on the Minor Prophets originally undertaken by the late William R. Harper
The book strikes him as charged with an atmosphere of spiritual intensity, and he declines to empty it of all serious meaaning.
The books has been formed by the combination of colllections of various dates and origins.
The Book of Esther present no complicated problems of documentary analysis, such as are found in most of the other historical books of the Old Testament.
It is five - and- thirty years the since the English translation pf Keil's Commentary on Numbers, which had been published in Germany five years before, appeared.
'The International Critical Commentary' with the preparation of the volume on Genesis.
He feels that the nation needs something more than ritual ; they need the personal favour of Yahweh Himself; His interposition as the administrator of this national cleansing, present, active, personal, experimental knowledge of sin, as thus staining, soiling, polluting, the nation.