The Making of the New Testament Part 9

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. General Introductions to N.T. Literature.

MOFFATT, JAS. _"Internat. Theol. Library" Series._ Scribner's, 1911.

Standard, comprehensive, progressive. Best compendium of the subject in English. A book for experts. 671 pp., 8vo.

JuLICHER, A. Engl. transl, by D. A. Ward, from 4th German ed.

London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1903. The most serviceable of modern German Introductions, based on the standard work of the "liberal"

school, by H. J. Holtzmann. 650 pp., large 8vo.

ZAHN, THEO. Engl. transl. from 3rd German ed., by M. W. Jacobus.

Scribner's, 1909. Standard "conservative" work. Immense scholars.h.i.+p in the harness of apologetics. Total, 1750 pp., in 3 vols., large 8vo.

BACON, B. W. _"New Test. Handbook" Series._ Macmillan 1900. Similar to Moffatt's in standpoint, but without the survey of the literature. For readers less technically advanced. 300 pp., small 8vo.

PEAKE, A. S. N.Y., Scribner's, 1910. 250 pp., 12mo. An excellent primer of the subject, generally conservative.

2. Critical Treatments of Pauline Literature.

SHAW, R. D. _The Pauline Epistles, Introductory and Expository Studies_, 2nd ed. T. & T. Clarke, 1904. 518 pp., large 8vo. Sober and cautious. For general readers.

RAMSAY, W. M. _Pauline and other Studies in Early Christian History._ Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. 425 pp., large 8vo. _The Cities of St. Paul_ (1907, 468 pp.) is by the same author, an eminent geographer and archaeologist ardently enlisted against German criticism. Interesting but diffuse.

PFLEIDERER, O. _Paulinism._ Engl. transl. by E. Peters. 2nd ed.

1891. Williams & Norgate. 2 vols. 8vo. Total, 580 pp., 8vo. Still a standard exposition of Paul's system of thought. A book for experts.

BAUR, F. C. _Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ, his Life and Work, Epistles and Doctrine._ Engl. transl. of Zeller's (2nd), German ed., by A. Menzies. Williams & Norgate, 1876. Two vols. 8vo (375 + 350 pp.). An epoch-making book, the starting-point of modern criticism.

SCHWEITZER, A. This able, though one-sided, critic has issued already (1912) the conclusion to his study of modern Lives of Christ (see below, _The Quest of the Historical Jesus_) under the t.i.tle _Geschichte der Paulinischen Forschung_. It may be expected that this comprehensive survey and searching criticism of the literature of Pauline study will soon be made accessible to the English reader.

WREDE, W. _Paul._ Engl. transl. by E. Lummis. P. Green, London, 1907. 190 pp., 12mo. A brief, brilliant, popular sketch, radical, suggestive. Needs the balance of more cautious criticism.

WEISS, J. _Paul and Jesus._ Engl. transl. by H. J. Chaytor. London and New York, Harper & Bros., 1909. 130 pp., 12mo. An effective answer to Wrede's view of Paul as the real creator of Christianity, by a progressive and able critic.

Lives of Paul by Cone, Clemen (German) and others are abundant in recent years. See the _Encyclopaedias_ and _Dictionaries of the Bible_, s.v. "Paul."

3. Critical Treatments of the Synoptic Gospels and Acts.

STANTON, V. H. _The Gospels as Historical Doc.u.ments_, Parts I and II. Cambridge University Press, 1903-1909. 297 + 400 pp., 8vo. A standard survey of Gospel criticism from a conservative standpoint, the work of a scholar for scholars.

CONE, O. _Gospel Criticism and Historical Christianity._ Putnam's, N.Y., 1891. 375 pp., small 8vo. Liberal, semi-popular.

BURKITT, F. C. _The Earliest Sources for the Life of Jesus._ Houghton & Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1910. 130 pp., 12mo. Simple and popular. Burkitt is a leading progressive scholar.

4. The Johannine Writings.

DRUMMOND, JAS. _Character and Authors.h.i.+p of the Fourth Gospel._ Scribner's, N.Y., 1904. 544 pp., 8vo. The ablest recent defence of the traditional authors.h.i.+p. Scholarly discussion of the literary history.

BACON, B. W. _The Fourth Gospel in Research and Debate._ Moffat, Yard & Co., N.Y., 1910. 556 pp., 8vo. A similar discussion of the evidences reaching the reverse conclusion.

SCOTT, E. F. _The Fourth Gospel, its Purpose and Theology._ T. & T.

Clarke, Edinburgh, 1906. 386 pp., 8vo. Admirable in temper, lucid in style, semi-popular.

SCHMIEDEL, P. W. _The Johannine Writings._ Engl. transl., by M. A.

Canney. London, A. & C. Black, 1903. 295 pp., 12mo. Brief, popular, radical, by one of the ablest of N.T. critics.

General.

REUSS, E. _History of the N.T._ Engl. transl. from 5th German ed., by E. L. Houghton. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1884. 649 pp. 2 vols. large 8vo. A standard treasury of scholarly information.

WERNLE, P. _The Beginnings of Christianity._ Engl. transl., by G. A.

Bienemann. London, Williams & Norgate, 1904. 388 + 404 pp., 8vo. 2 vols. Able, scholarly, advanced.

PFLEIDERER, O. _Christian Origins._ Engl. transl., by D. Huebsch.

New York, B. W. Huebsch, 1906. 295 pp., 12mo. Popular lectures showing something of the views of the modern school of critics known as _religionsgeschichtlich_. Pfleiderer's critical opinions are fully expressed in his _Primitive Christianity_ (Engl. transl., by W. Montgomery, in four vols., 8vo. Putnams, 1909).

MUZZEY, D. S. _The Rise of the N.T._ New York, Macmillan, 1900. 156 pp., 12mo. An excellent primer for beginners.

WREDE, W. _The Origin of the N.T._ Engl. transl. by J. S. Hill.

Harper & Bros., London & New York, 1909. 151 pp., 12mo. An admirable primer by a brilliant leader of advanced criticism.

VON SODEN. _The History of Early Christian Literature. Writings of the N.T._ Engl. transl., by J. R. Wilkinson. Williams & Norgate, 1906. 476 pp., 12mo. A book for beginners by a great N.T. scholar of liberal views. A closely connected field is covered by various _Histories of the Apostolic Age_, of which the most recent and important are those of Weizsacker (Engl. transl., 1895) and McGiffert (1897). Less technical and more orthodox are those of Vernon-Bartlett (1899) and J. H. Ropes (1906). _Critical Lives of Christ_ present the results of critical study of the Gospels. A survey of this field of research, keenly a.n.a.lytical and severely critical, is given by A. Schweitzer in _The Quest of the Historical Jesus_ (Engl. transl. by W. Montgomery. A. & C. Black, 1910. 416 pp., 8vo). Schweitzer writes with great scholars.h.i.+p and power, but decided polemic interest as a "consistent eschatologist."