| − + | Ind. 62: 330. F. 7, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Quite up to the highest German standard. No other writer has paid more attention to poetic structure, and he has used its laws in his correction of the text.”
| + | Ind. 62: 974. Ap. 25, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Much in his volume demands most careful consideration; but we cannot but think that a verdict of ‘not proven’ will have to be returned on many of his most confident and dogmatic conclusions as regards both the text and the development of the Psalter.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“These volumes command respect as a work of immense industry. No existing commentary on the Psalms can be compared with them for exhaustive thoroughness.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 61. Jl. 18, ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Briggs, Charles Augustus, and Hugel, Friedrich H. von. Papal commission and the Pentateuch. *75c. Longmans.
In which the author and his friend Friedrich von Hugel exchange letters on the decision of the Pontifical commission concerning the Pentateuch. Professor Briggs expresses his “surprise and grief that the Commission should have put such a burden on the church, and restates the critical conclusions as to the composite authorship of the Pentateuch, as against the Commission’s conclusion that Moses wrote it, with the use of pre-existing documents and some later scribal additions. Von Hugel replies, defining the liberty of Catholic scholarship in the church, agreeing with Professor Briggs as to the folly of the Commission’s action, even altho approved by the Pope, and both agree that the decision should not forbid critical research and freedom.” (Ind.)