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Luzzatto, on the 'God of Job,' 104;
  on Koheleth, 238 sq.


Mal'ak Yahvè, 80

Mal'akim, 79, 80, 82

Marduk, the god, 77

Mariolatry, 162 n.

Marvell, Andrew, quoted, 144

Māshāl, 125 sq., 132, 163 Maspero, quoted, 76 Massa, in the Hauran, Israelite colony at, 171 Medical Science, attitudes of Sirach and Hezekiah to, 190 sq.

Meir, Rabbi, the writer of animal fables, 128

Mendelssohn, on Koheleth, 236

Mephistopheles, 110 n.

Merodach, the god, 77

Merx, view of Job, 62, 113

Messianic hope, 119, 188

Midrash, proverbs in, 128

Milton, allusions to, 53, 62, 107, 108, 112, 162, 253;
  quotations from, 19, 41, 107, 160, 162

Mishnic peculiarities in Koheleth, 256

M'lîça, a dark saying, 125 Mohammed, delight of, in 'Job, 63; religion of, 98 Mommsen, quoted, 181 Monarchy, view of, in Proverbs, 145; in Koheleth, 222 Monogamy, in Proverbs, 136 Monotheism, of Job, 74; in Proverbs, 130 Morality, of the Proverbs, 135 sq., 177 Moses, authorship of the Law, 3; nature of his work, 6 Mo'tazilites, 98, 162 n., 296 Mozley, quoted, 103 Mussaph prayer, 193 Mythology, in 'Job,' 76 Narrative poetry, alien to Hebrew genius, 13 Nature, feeling for, in 'Job,' 51; in Sirach, 193 Nebuchadnezzar, 73 Neferhotep, stanzas in honour of, 269 Neubauer, Dr. A., 289 New Testament, attitude to Proverbs, 177 Nowack, on Eccles. (iii. 12), 210 n.

Numerical Proverbs, 153


Old Testament, general remarks on the criticism of, 1 sqq.; need to distinguish between the parts of, 7; critical problems of, not prominent in Christ's time, 7 Omar Khayyam, 200, 245, 246, 253, 263 Onias, the High Priest, 213 Onkelus, Targum of, 264 Oort, Dr., on proverbs, 127 Orion, 77 Palmer, Major, 52 Parables, in the Old Testament, 126 Paradise, tradition of, 123 Patriarchal Age, whether delineated in Job, 13, 71 sqq.

Paul, Saint, doctrine of the Atonement, 3, 287

Pentateuch, the literary analysis of it, 5 sq.

Peshitto translation of Proverbs, 174

Philo, 151, 161 n., 264 Pisa, Job frescoes at, 106 Pleiades, 52, 290 Plumptre, Dean, 122, 158, 207 n., 212, 245, 263, 265; and passim

Prior, the poet, on Koheleth, 237

Prophetical books, plural authorship in, 8

Prophets, their antisacrificial language, 4;
  their horizon that of their own times, 8;
  their relations to the 'Wise Men,' 119 sqq., 182 sq.

Proverbs, different names for, 125;
  no collection of popular, 125;
  some originally current as riddles, 127

Proverbs, the Book of
  (a) The division of, 134;
    repetitions in, 133, 143;
    no subject arrangement, 134;
    the tone of the different parts of, 135, 146, 167, 177;
    their dates, 130, 133, 145, 149, 152, 165 sqq.;
    their authorship, 130 sqq., 142, 135, 165 sq.;
    their form and style, 133, 139, 143. 149, 154, 168;
    interpolations in, 173 sqq.;
    transpositions in, 174
  (b) Passages explained or emended:
    (v. 16), 296;
    (viii. 22), 160;
    (xiv. 32), 122;
    (xviii. 24), 137;
    (xix. 1), 135 n.;
    (xix. 7), 134;
    (xxii. 19-21), 138;
    (xxiii. 18), 123;
    (xxvii. 6), 148, 296;
    (xxx. 1-5), 149 sq.,