Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Book of Job: Essays, and a Metrical Paraphrase
The members of the Adult Bible Class of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, at whose request this book has been published, will need no explanations as to its origin and nature; but, for the information of others into whose hands it may fall, some prefatory remarks seem to be required.
During the year 1877 the class referred to was en gaged in' the critical study of the Book of Job. This portion of Scripture was selected, partly because it is one of those which have been most sadly abused both in translation and in exegesis; partly because its ad mitted character as a work of dramatic art takes it to a great extent out of the realm of theological controversy, and opens it to unprejudiced critical examination; and finally because the result of such an examination is to shed unexpected light upon the whole theory of Reve lation as a history of divinely-guided religious culture.
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