The Classic Commentaries and Studies on the Pentateuch presents an impressive balance of perspectives from the history of biblical scholarship on the Five Books of Moses. With contributing voices from Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the contributors here provide an international taste of scholarship on the Pentateuch from a wide variety of perspectives. Some are fully entrenched in the higher criticism and analyses of the literary sources of the Pentateuch books, while others emphasize the traditional unity of the Pentateuch and the historic position of its authorship by Moses. Together these dueling perspectives give readings the opportunity to consider the evidence, historical, archaeological, and textual, and decide for themselves the nature and structure of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers of Deuteronomy.

This massive 21 volume collection features some of the best commentaries and studies on the Book of Exodus from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With scholars and authors such as James G. Murphy, Benjamin Wisner Bacon, Edward Dennett, and John Cumming, Classic Commentaries and Studies on Exodus (21 vols.) offers over 6,000 pages of interpretation, observations, translations, contextual history, and application on this important book of the Old Testament. The 21 volumes contained in Classic Commentaries and Studies on Exodus have had an enduring impact on Old Testament exegesis, and this exceptional collection provides easy accessibility to this wealth of significant scholarship.

Many small textual translation differences quickly add up, and this can create a great error in the validity of the translated Bible as a whole. Published in 1878, Essay on the Right Estimation of Manuscript Evidence details the great need for a clear system of Bible translation for that very reason. Thomas Rawson Birks states that laws and principles should be in place to determine the relative weight of manuscript evidence when translating old manuscripts into modern-day language, in order to ensure that Bible translations do not err from the truth.

Investigate biblical prophecy with Anglican minister and Cambridge scholar Thomas Rawson Birks. In these classic volumes you’ll find Birks’ insights and exposition on the prophecies found in Isaiah, Daniel, and Revelation. Not one to shy away from controversial topics, Birks wrote and studied extensively on biblical prophecy and the Apocalypse. Of the prophecies in the Bible he writes, “they serve to link into harmonious union the precepts of the Law and the promises of the Gospel. They give a freedom and dignity to the obedience of the Christian, by admitting him to a glimpse of the counsels of the most high, and raising him to the high honor of being a fellow-worker with God. They shield the grace of the Gospel from licentious abuse, by exhibiting the severest warnings of judgment to those who corrupt and pervert its sacred privileges.”

This massive collection features some of the best commentaries and studies on the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. The Classic Commentaries and Studies on the Torah offers thousands of pages of interpretation, observations, translations, contextual history, and application on this crucial books to understanding the Old Testament. These volumes have had an enduring impact on Old Testament exegesis, and this exceptional collection provides easy accessibility to this wealth of significant scholarship.

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With thousands of scholarly commentaries covering every book of the Bible, the Complete Classic Commentaries Collection is a timeless trove of more than 1,600 expositions, analyses, and illustrations. This massive bundle is comprised of classic commentaries Logos has released separately in the past. Build your library or complement the resources you already own with these classic works in Logos’ advanced digital format.

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Explore Birks’ exposition of the four kingdoms described in Daniel. He comments that he aims to “impress the mind of the reader with a vivid sense of the reality of Divine Providence, based firmly on a strict and logical interpretation of the visions, and then to clothe the bare outline with a refreshing variety of spiritual meditations.”

Thomas Birks continues his historical exposition of Daniel’s prophecies which he started in The Four Prophetic Empires, with a discussion “more strictly confined to the actual details of the prophetic history.” He here discusses the two later visions of Daniel.

Explore Thomas Rawson Birks’ commentary on Isaiah alongside the text of his revised English translation of the book. He provides exposition of the Scripture, and seeks to unfold “the structure of the book of Isaiah, and the mutual relation of its parts, and thus to confirm the genuineness and unity of the whole prophecy.” His object is also to unfold the “relation between Isaiah’s successive visions and the circumstances out of which they arose.” He also provides a number of appendixes on various related subjects.

Thomas Birks seeks to “unfold in logical order the hopes which the word of God sets before us of the ‘good things to come’ and at the same time to examine chief objections which have been lately urged, especially by the Rev. David Brown, against the doctrine of the premillennial advent of our Lord, and of his personal reign over the earth in glorified humanity.” He notes, “I have purposely forborne all amplification of the doctrines here unfolded, and practical reflections on their importance an...

This response to John William Colenso’s The Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua Critically Examined systematically moves through the book of Exodus and addresses the difficulties that Colenso highlighted in his controversial work. Seventeen of the chapters directly answer the arguments of Bishop Colenso, the eighteenth and nineteenth chapters review the numerical and historical objections to the Pentateuch, and chapters 20 to 22 constitute an argument for the truth and Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, deduced from the Psalms, the prophets, and the gospels.

Birks offers a historical exposition of Revelation 8 and 9.

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Finished by Thomas Birks’ son after he was taken ill, this volume contains four sections restating and expanding upon his ideas about the structure of Apocalypse and prophecy. Birks found his ideas and views misrepresented in Edward Bishop Elliott’s Horae Apocalypticae and set out to establish a correct understanding of his thinking on the Apocalypse.

Thomas Birks discusses some of the challenging aspects of Christian belief about creation, free will, sin, redemption, and judgment. As Birks states in the preface, the object of his text is to “remove some of those difficulties which have often haunted thoughtful and inquiring minds, when they reflect on the deeper truths and more solemn aspects of religion, both natural and revealed.… The aim of these pages is not to awaken the sense of difficulties in [the readers’] minds, but to relieve the ...

Thomas Birks exposits the “first elements” of the symbolical prophecies of Daniel and John, the prophecy of Jesus, and a few predictions in the writings of Paul. He states his object as being “to secure firm footing at every step, and, avoiding more doubtful questions, to establish the first elements of prophetic truth on clear and logical grounds of Scripture evidence and solid reason.” He helps readers unpack these kinds of prophecies, that “refer more immediately to the Church of Christ, in i...

In The Victory of Divine Goodness Thomas Birks compiles a number of different fragments of his writing, especially concerned with the concepts of atonement and judgment to come. The text’s three main sections are “Letters to an Inquirer on Various Doctrines of Scripture,” “Notes on Coleridge’s Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit,” and “Thoughts on the Nature of the Atonement and of Eternal Judgment.”

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The present volume is designed as a small contribution to the controversy of the authorship of the Pentateuch and the literary unity of the Five Books of Moses. The objects of critical scholarship against the unity and genuineness of the book of Genesis on the basis of the use of the two divine names in different passages is examined and explained here in a manner that is accessible and intelligible to English readers.