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Elephants, 57

Elihu, genealogy, 42 n; speeches of, 68, 90 sqq.; their date, 42, 92; their style, 47, 92, 291 Eliphaz, his home, 15; the 'depositary of a revelation,' 17 Elohim, the sons of the, 14, 79, 81, 82, 151 Emerson, quoted, 160 Enoch, 297; Book of, 268 Epictetus, 234 n.

Epicureanism, in Koheleth, 240 sq., 252, 262 sq.

Epicurus, 222

Ethics, practical, relation to Hebrew Wisdom, 118 sq.; of the Proverbs, 135 sq.

Euergetes II. Physkon, 180

Ewald, his division of the Book of Proverbs, 134;
  of the Praise of Wisdom, 162;
  on the date of Proverbs, 190;
  on Koheleth, 236 sqq.; and passim

Ezekiel (xiv. 14), 60

Ezra, why not mentioned in Sirach, 193 sq.


Family life, in Proverbs, 136

Farmers, Israelitish goodwill to, 136, 214

Faust, the Hebrew, 150

Fees, whether paid to the 'Wise Men,' 124 n.

Fénelon, 67

Friends, Job's, Emeers, 15;
  representatives of orthodoxy, 17;
  their narrowness, 30

Froude, J. A., quoted on Job xxvii., 95 n.


Gamaliel, 280

Geiger, on Koheleth, 238 sq.

Genesis, no protest against Idolatry in, 71;
  opening chapters of, 6;
  (xiv. 19-22), 160

Gilchrist, Life of Blake, 107

Ginsburg, Dr., on 'proportionate retribution' in Job, 69;
  on Koheleth, 236;
  on Eccles. (iii. 12), 210 n.; and passim

Gnostic myth of Achamoth, 161

God, name of, in Koheleth, 201, 217

Godet, 288

Grätz, on Koheleth, 244, 301

Grave, Job's, 60

Greek influence on Koheleth, 202, 241, 260 sqq.

Green, Prof., of Princeton, on Job, (xix. 25-27), 33, 34 n.; (xxvii.-xxviii.), 94 Gregory the Great, on 'Job,' 90 Hai Gaon, Rabbi, on 'Job,' 61 Harischandra compared to Job, 63 Harnack, quoted, 263 Harūn ar-Rashid, 131, 296 Hegesias Peisithanatos, 268 Heine, on 'Job,' 104 Hellenic movement in Palestine, 181 Hengstenberg, on 'Job,' 61; on Koheleth, 249 n.

Herder, on 'Job,' 295;
  on Koheleth, 301

Hezekiah, the Song of, 88;
  his supposed authorship of Proverbs xxv.-xxix., 142 sq.; his views on medical science, 191 Hillel, Rabbi, a copious fabulist, 128; the School of, on Koheleth, 280 Hitopadesa, quoted, 153 Hitzig, as a critic, 241 n.; on the arrangement of the Praise of Wisdom, 163; and passim

Hooker, 161, 162, 216 sq.

Hosea, parallels to 'Job' in, 87

Humboldt, A. von, 46

Humour, touches of, in 'Job,' 13, 14, 49, 109, 290;
  in Proverbs, 148 n.; in Koheleth, 200, 216 Husbandmen, Israelite goodwill to, 136, 214 Ibn Ezra, opinion that 'Job' was a translation, 96 Ibycus, the cranes of, 222 Idealism, of the Prophets, 119 Immortality, the hope of, in Proverbs, 122 sq.; attitude of Koheleth to, 216, 251, 301 Inconsistencies in the Canonical Scriptures, 204 Indian, animal fables, 126 n.; proverbs, 129 Inspiration, view of, broadened by literary criticism, 7 Irving, Edward, 162 Isaiah, mythological allusions in, 78; parallels to 'Job' in, 84, 87; xxviii., 14, 120 n.

Israel, Job a type of, 58;
  the word not in Proverbs, 119;
  Koheleth indifferent to its religious primacy, 199