The Messages of the Prophetic and Priestly Historians

by John Edgar McFadyen

Publisher:

Charles Scribner’s Sons

, 1911

Overview

In accordance with the general purpose of the series to which it belongs, The Messages of the Prophetic and Priestly Historians aims at presenting the religious message of the historical books of the Old Testament in paraphrase. The wide outlook of its historians upon the progress of the centuries; their splendid interpretation of history; their triumphant faith in Israel’s mission and destiny; their overwhelming consciousness of God as the Lord of all, inspiring history with a sense of purpose, guiding it toward a divine event, bending to the consummation of his purpose the resources of the world which he created and controls, calling and equipping men from generation to generation to advance that purpose and to interpret his will, following his people in love through all their willful way, seeking, by a discipline which was often stern but always gracious, to bring them into that fellowship with himself for which man was originally destined: these are the things that are precious to the Christian church.

The Messages of the Prophetic and Priestly Historians includes the historical narratives of the Hexateuch, and also the entire books of Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ruth, and Esther in paraphrase with notes.

Praise for the Print Edition

It is a reference book, which the student of the Old Testament will use constantly in his study as he uses Driver and Bacon and Kautzsch—to ascertain the prevailing partition of a passage among the sources according to the critical school.

—The Standard

Product Details

• Title: The Messages of the Prophetic and Priestly Historians
• Author: John Edgar McFadyen
• Series: The Messages of the Bible
• Volume: IV
• Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
• Print Publication Date: 1911
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 362
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. › Paraphrases, English
• Resource ID: LLS:MESPROPHPRIEST
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-06-20T13:50:18Z

About John Edgar McFadyen

John Edgar McFadyen (1870–1933) was a Scottish theologian, linguist, and professor of literature and theology at the University of Glasgow. He also translated several Old Testament books into “modern speech” and was a proponent of the international auxiliary language, Esperanto.