APPENDIX I LITERARY INDEX TO The bible In this first Appendix the whole Bible, and the more important parts of the Apocrypha, are divided up into the separate literary compositions of which they are composed. The form of each composition is indicated, and, in cases that admit of it, a suitable title is suggested. The arrangement follows the order in which the books of the Bible stand; the Appendix will therefore serve as a guide to Bible reading where it is desired to read from the literary point of view. Reference figures (in brackets) are added to previous pages in which particular compositions have been discussed. The Appendix will therefore serve also as an Index to the present work. It is suggested to the student to mark with pencil in his copy of the Revised Version the divisions and titles here suggested, or to make divisions and titles of his own. It is an immense help to literary appreciation to have the form of a piece of literature conveyed directly to the eye (as is done by the printer in all books except the Bible), instead of having to collect the form by inference while reading. 479 GENESIS History Part I: Formation of the Chosen Nation.- Primitive History Deals with the period preceding the appearance of the Chosen People as a Nation. An Historic Framework enclosing Epic Incidents (250). i-xi xii-l First Beginnings of the World The Patriarchal Succession Merged in this History, yet separable for literary purposes, are various forms of Epic. i-ii. 3 ii. 4-iii iv. 1-15 vi. 9-ix. 17 OF ABRAHAM. EPIC STORIES The Creation The Temptation in the Garden of Eden Cain and Abel The Flood EPIC CYCLES Call of Abraham (xii. 1-9)-— Sarai and Pharaoh (xii. 10-20) — The Parting of Abraham and Lot, and the Raid on Sodom (xiii-xiv) — Sarai, Hagar, and the Promised Seed (xv-xvii) The Judgment on Sodom (xviii-xix. 28) — Abimelech and Sarah (xx) — Birth of Isaac and casting off of Ishmael (xxi. 1–21) — Offering of Isaac (xxii. 1–19) – Burial of Sarah (xxiii) — Wooing of Rebekah (xxiv) OF ISAAC.- Birth of Isaac and casting off of Ishmael (xxi. 1–21) Offering of Isaac (xxii. 1–19) — Burial of Sarah (xxiii) · Wooing of Rebekah (xxiv) -- OF JACOB.- Guileful obtaining of Isaac's blessing (xxvii. 1-40)· Flight of Jacob (xxvii. 41-xxviii) — How Jacob served under Laban (xxixxxxii. 2) — Meeting of Jacob and Esau (xxxii. 3-xxxiii) — Blessing and Death of Jacob (xlvii. 28–1) - xxxvii. 2-36 continued xxxix. 1-xlvi. 7 and xlvi. 28 xlvii. 12 EPIC HISTORY Joseph and his Brethren (228) 1 The reader is warned against the common mistake of confusing Epic with Fiction. (Above, page 227.) EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS History Part II: Migration of the Chosen Nation to the Land of Promise. Constitutional History Deals with the Chosen Nation up to their arrival at the Land of Promise. Successive Revelations of Law, and Incidents associated with these (251). Exodus and Leviticus and i-ix. 14 Numbers from ix. 15 Deliverance from Egypt and Migration to Sinai The Thirty-eight Years' Wandering in the Wilderness Merged in this History, but separable for literary purposes, are various forms of Epic. Numb. xxii-xxiv | The Story of Balaam (230 and 382 note) DEUTERONOMY OR The Orations and Songs of Moses An Historic Framework enclosing the Farewell Orations and Songs of Moses. (Fully analysed above, Chapter XII.) Portions described in italics may be omitted in the exercise of taking in Deuteronomy at a single sitting.1 i. 1-2 3-5 i. 6-iv. 40 Title page to the whole book Preface to the First Oration First Oration: Moses' Announcement of his Deposition 1 Several passages (i. 2; ii. 10-12; ii. 20-3; iii. 9, 11, 14; x. 6-9) should be marked off from the orations as 'explanatory footnotes.' |