The Book of Psalms (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It need hardly be said that he has profited by good suggestions wherever he has found them; Dr. Kay's translation may be mentioned in particular as a most helpful and scholarly version of the received text. Reble's too little known metrical version has now and again supplied a felicitous phrase it is the production of a poetical student, though as a work of art it cannot compare with the metrical German translation, or rather reproduction, of the Psalms by one of the most studious of poets, Julius Hammer. Another metrical version, also in German, arrived too late to be of use. Its author, Dr. Gustav Bickell, had, however, already published a metrical edition in Hebrew of the poetical parts of the Old Testament, which, though too hold to be adopted as a basis in its entirety, proved an invaluable supplement to the already existing text critical apparatus. The author of the famous article, Israel, in the Encyclopedia Britannica (julius has well remarked that, whatever may be said of Dr. Bickell's supposed metrical discoveries, his critical labours have often led him to self-evident corrections of the Hebrew text.

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