The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English : with introductions and critical and explanatory notes to the several books

:00ICOiCO?CDCDmr'^ty/ ^ "^ ^ i#li^)HE APOCRYPHAAND PSEUDEPIGRAPHAOF THEOLD TESTAMENTIN ENGLISHWITH INTRODUCTIONS AND CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESTO THE SEVERAL BOOKSEDITED IN WITH MANY SCHOLARS BYCONJUNCTIONR. H. D.D.CHARLES, D.Litt.,FELLOW OF MERTON OXFORDCOLLEGE,THE ACADEMY OF BRITISHIIVOLUMEPSEUDEPIGRAPHAV7OXFORDAT THE CLARENDON PRESS1913OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSLONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORKTORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAYHUMPHREY MILFORD M.A.PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITYPREFACEstudents both of the Old and New Testaments the value of the non-CanonicalForliterature from 200 b. c. to a. d. 100 is on sideJewish practically recognized everyand Christian scholars. But hitherto no has been made toalike attemptby Jewishan edition of this literature as a in such anissue whole Indeed,English.^ undertakingbeen all but at an earlier that critical editions ofwould have date, seeingimpossibleof the and have not been till withinsome Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha publishedthe last few years.work.The method observed in thisIn all the contributions one and the same method has been observed. Eachcontribution consists of an an translation from the best criticalintroduction, English—text in a few cases the Revised Version has been and emendationsadopted suggested—in the notes and of a critical and As the intro-exegetical commentary.^ regardsthe dealt with in them so far as been treated inductions, have,subjects possible,the same order to facilitate ...