A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms, Vol. 2 (ICC)

by Charles Augustus Briggs; Emilie Grace Briggs

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 1907

Overview

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series.

No attempt has been made to secure a uniform theological or critical approach to the biblical text: contributors have been invited for their scholarly distinction, not for their adherence to any one school of thought.

The depth of analysis found in the International Critical Commentary (ICC) Series has yet to be surpassed in any commentary collection. One of the best features of this series is the extensive amount of background information given in each volume's introduction, where all of the analysis is provided before the actual commentary begins. Each volume packs more information into the introduction than you will often find in the body of most commentaries! Also consider that with the electronic versions of each volume, you will never need to leaf through the hundreds of pages in each volume searching for the passage you are studying.

Contents

Top Highlights

“implying that the lesson is to be learned from the brevity and affliction of life” (Pages 275–276)

“be able to think and act wisely in accordance with the divine will and guidance” (Page 275)

“The Ps. was evidently written in peaceful times, when there was constant access to the temple, and when the chief evils to be feared were pestilence and such like. The Ps. belongs to the late Persian or more probably to the early Greek period.” (Page 279)

“The sacred mountains are sacred because they are God’s foundation, the place of His temple 87:1, and as the place” (Page 377)

Praise for the Print Edition

Christian scholarship seems here to have reached the highest level yet attained in study of the book which in religious importance stands next to the Gospels. His work upon it is not likely to be excelled in learning, both massive and minute, by any volume of the International Series, to which it belongs.

—The Outlook

We have in this work what we should expect, extreme thoroughness, scholarly precision and depth of insight.

—The Churchman

Product Details

• Title: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms, Volume 2
• Author: C. A. Briggs and E. G. Briggs
• Editors: Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, and Charles Augustus Briggs
• Publisher: T & T Clark
• Publication Date: 1906-07
• Pages: 571

About Charles Augustus Briggs

Charles Augustus Briggs (January 15, 1841 - 1913): American theologian and Hebrew scholar. Born in New York City, he was educated at the University of Virginia (1857-1860), graduated at the Union Theological Seminary in 1863, and studied further at the University of Berlin. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church of Roselle, New Jersey, 1869-1874, and professor of Hebrew and cognate languages in Union Theological Seminary 1874-1891. From 1880 to 1890 he was an editor of the Presbyterian Review. In 1892 he was tried for heresy by the presbytery of New York and acquitted; the general assembly, however, suspended Briggs in 1893. He was ordained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1899. He has been awarded many honoraries degrees and is the author of many publications.