A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Deuteronomy, 3rd Ed. (ICC)
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.
Editors at the Time of Publication: Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, Charles Augustus Briggs
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Top Highlights
“one’ is to be understood. Does it express the unity of Jehovah, declaring that He is in His essence indivisible,” (Pages 89–90)
“It is a duty which follows naturally as the grateful response to Jehovah for the many undeserved mercies received at His hands (v. 12, 10:12ff.); it involves the fear and the service of God (v. 13, 10:12, 11:13); it impels those who are filled with it to the conscientious observance of all God’s commands (11:1, 22, 19:9, 30:16): it thus appears as the most inward and the most comprehensive of all religious duties, and as the chief commandment of all (Mk. 12:29f.)’ (Dillm.” (Page 91)
“But the text yields a very suitable sense; and there is no sufficient reason for preferring this reading. Cf. Geiger, Urschrift, p. 294.” (Page 356)
“if the temptation be indulged in, drought and famine may be expected as the consequences.” (Pages 130–131)
“the parallelism of Dt. is both much less frequent, and (where it is present) much less” (Page xi)
Praise for the Print Edition
It is a pleasure to see at last a really critical Old Testament commentary in English upon a portion of the Pentateuch, and especially one of such merit. This I find superior to any other Commentary in any language upon Deuteronomy.
— E. L. Curtis, Yale University
Product Details
- Title: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Deuteronomy
- Author: Author: S. R. Driver
- Edition: 3rd
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Publication Date: 1902
- Pages: 434
About Samuel Rriver
Samuel Rolles Driver: An Old Testament and Semitic languages scholar. He was educated at Winchester School and Oxford University, where he became a fellow of New College in 1870 and from 1875 was also a tutor. He was awarded the Pusey and Ellerton scholarship in 1866, the Kennicott scholarship in 1870 (both Hebrew), and the Houghton Syriac prize in 1872. In 1883 he succeeded E. B. Pusey in the Regius Chair of Hebrew at Oxford, which he occupied for the rest of his life.
Driver was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee of the Revised Version (1876-1884). He authored An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, and the ICC volumes on Job, all of which are available in Libronix. Most notably, he co-authored the Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon of the OT (Unabridged).
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