“As a standard type of excellence among manuals for Biblical study this volume, available for various methods of teaching, is unsurpassed.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 900. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w. |
Harper, William Rainey. Prophetic element in the Old Testament, $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
These studies are intended primarily for students in colleges or theological seminaries, but the author has endeavored to make them suitable also for advanced classes in Sunday schools. Part 1, covers The general scope of the prophetic element in the Old Testament; Part 2, The history of prophecy through Hosea. The studies are concise and scientific in treatment. Appendices include A table of important dates, A chronological table of the religious life of Israel, The prophetic vocabulary, and An analysis of the Hexateuch.
“It is a complete guide to this period of prophetic work. Its method is inductive and constructive.”
| + + | Bib. World. 26: 398. N. ‘05. 70w. |
“This is the needed complement to Dr. Harper’s work on ‘The priestly element.’”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 140w. |
Harper, William Rainey. Religion and the higher life: talks to students. [*]$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
Religion as presented by President Harper in these talks to students is an attractive but very serious thing, to be gotten and kept only by the bravest struggle. He summons his hearers to meet the peculiar and tremendous responsibilities which rest upon them as college men, and tells them with an almost fatherly sympathy and undertone of pleading how religion will help them in a most practical way to meet the sufferings and temptations which await them. Noteworthy are the chapter on Our intellectual difficulties, in which he shows that doubts are not inconsistent with the Christian life, but are in fact inevitable, and the chapter entitled Bible study and religious life, in which he argues that the supreme spiritual value of the Bible is independent of the literary and historical criticism to which it is properly subjected.