The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges: Joel and Amos

by Samuel Rolles Driver

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

, 1898

Overview

Although they are two of the smallest Old Testament books, Joel and Amos are full of prophecy, history, and practical application for today. S. R. Driver's exegesis on both of these books pulls from his years of biblical studies. Comprehensive and meticulous, the commentary shows how Joel and Amos interact with each other, as well as how they fit into the Old Testament and Bible as a whole.

Key Features

• Verse-by-verse exegesis
• Contains helpful notes, indexes, and appendixes

Praise for the Print Edition

There are no better books in exposition of the different parts of Scripture than those contained in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. The series has long since established its claim to an honorable place in the front rank of first-rate commentaries; and the teacher or preacher who masters its volumes will be, like Apollos, mighty in the Scriptures.

—Church Sunday School Magazine

Product Details

• Title: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges: Joel and Amos
• Author: S. R. Driver
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1898
• Pages: 260

About Samuel Rolles Driver

From JewishEncyclopedia.com

Samuel Rolles Driver

English Christian Hebraist; born at Southampton Oct. 2, 1846; regius professor of Hebrew (in succession to Pusey), and canon of Christ Church, Oxford, since 1883; member of the Old Testament Revision Company, 1876-84.

Together with T. K. Cheyne and Robertson Smith, Driver has been one of the foremost champions of Biblical criticism in England. Driver approached it from its linguistic side ("Jour. of Phil." 1882, pp. 201-236). His first contribution, "A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew" (Oxford, 1874; 3d ed., 1892), has remained the most complete presentation of the subject...In matters of criticism Driver has always taken a conservative view, showing much moderation and sympathy with the orthodox position.

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Driver has edited two small rabbinical works: a commentary on Jeremiah and Ezekiel by Moses ben Sheshet, London, 1871, and one on Proverbs, attributed to Abraham ibn Ezra, Oxford, 1880. He has also been a collaborator on the second edition of Smith's "Bible Dictionary," on Hasting's "Dictionary of the Bible," and on Cheyne and Black's "Encyclopædia Biblica," and is coeditor, with Professors Brown and Briggs, of the Clarendon press edition of Gesenius.

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