Ecclesiasticus

by Richard G. Moulton

Publishers:

Macmillan and Co.; Macmillan Co.

, 1904

Overview

Like the rest of the Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus stands between the Old and New Testaments. Like the whole of the Books of Wisdom, it is intermediate between sacred and secular literature. In common with two other of these wisdom books, it mediates between purely Jewish thought and the spirit of the external world that gradually leavened that thought; in the case of Ecclesiasticus, what there is of external influence is, on the explicit authority of the preface, to be put down to that Alexandrian literary circle that was the great link between oriental and Western, between ancient and modern. In a yet more important sense, the book has application: so far as biblical philosophy can be presented as a thing of development, Ecclesiasticus holds in that development a middle place. Richard G. Moulton provides an English translation of Ecclesiasticus, plus an extensive introduction to the book and a valuable commentary.

Product Details

• Title: Ecclesiasticus
• Author: Richard G. Moulton
• Series: The Modern Reader’s Bible
• Publishers: Macmillan and Co., Macmillan Co.
• Print Publication Date: 1904
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Ecclesiasticus
• Resource ID: LLS:DCECCLMOULTON
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:33:58Z

About Richard G. Moulton

Richard G. Moulton (1849–1924) was Professor of English Literature at the University of Chicago. Moulton was born in England and educated at Cambridge as a lawyer before immigrating to America—later receiving a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of over 30 titles including Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist, The Literary Study of the Bible, World Literature and Its Place in General Culture, and The Ancient Classical Drama.