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STANTON, V. H. _The Gospels as Historical Doc.u.ments_, Parts I and II. Cambridge University Press, 1903-1909. 297 + 400 pp., 8vo. A standard survey of Gospel criticism from a conservative standpoint, the work of a scholar for scholars.

CONE, O. _Gospel Criticism and Historical Christianity._ Putnam's, N.Y., 1891. 375 pp., small 8vo. Liberal, semi-popular.

BURKITT, F. C. _The Earliest Sources for the Life of Jesus._ Houghton & Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1910. 130 pp., 12mo. Simple and popular. Burkitt is a leading progressive scholar.

4. The Johannine Writings.

DRUMMOND, JAS. _Character and Authors.h.i.+p of the Fourth Gospel._ Scribner's, N.Y., 1904. 544 pp., 8vo. The ablest recent defence of the traditional authors.h.i.+p. Scholarly discussion of the literary history.

BACON, B. W. _The Fourth Gospel in Research and Debate._ Moffat, Yard & Co., N.Y., 1910. 556 pp., 8vo. A similar discussion of the evidences reaching the reverse conclusion.

SCOTT, E. F. _The Fourth Gospel, its Purpose and Theology._ T. & T.

Clarke, Edinburgh, 1906. 386 pp., 8vo. Admirable in temper, lucid in style, semi-popular.

SCHMIEDEL, P. W. _The Johannine Writings._ Engl. transl., by M. A.

Canney. London, A. & C. Black, 1903. 295 pp., 12mo. Brief, popular, radical, by one of the ablest of N.T. critics.

General.

REUSS, E. _History of the N.T._ Engl. transl. from 5th German ed., by E. L. Houghton. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1884. 649 pp. 2 vols. large 8vo. A standard treasury of scholarly information.

WERNLE, P. _The Beginnings of Christianity._ Engl. transl., by G. A.

Bienemann. London, Williams & Norgate, 1904. 388 + 404 pp., 8vo. 2 vols. Able, scholarly, advanced.

PFLEIDERER, O. _Christian Origins._ Engl. transl., by D. Huebsch.

New York, B. W. Huebsch, 1906. 295 pp., 12mo. Popular lectures showing something of the views of the modern school of critics known as _religionsgeschichtlich_. Pfleiderer's critical opinions are fully expressed in his _Primitive Christianity_ (Engl. transl., by W. Montgomery, in four vols., 8vo. Putnams, 1909).

MUZZEY, D. S. _The Rise of the N.T._ New York, Macmillan, 1900. 156 pp., 12mo. An excellent primer for beginners.

WREDE, W. _The Origin of the N.T._ Engl. transl. by J. S. Hill.

Harper & Bros., London & New York, 1909. 151 pp., 12mo. An admirable primer by a brilliant leader of advanced criticism.

VON SODEN. _The History of Early Christian Literature. Writings of the N.T._ Engl. transl., by J. R. Wilkinson. Williams & Norgate, 1906. 476 pp., 12mo. A book for beginners by a great N.T. scholar of liberal views. A closely connected field is covered by various _Histories of the Apostolic Age_, of which the most recent and important are those of Weizsacker (Engl. transl., 1895) and McGiffert (1897). Less technical and more orthodox are those of Vernon-Bartlett (1899) and J. H. Ropes (1906). _Critical Lives of Christ_ present the results of critical study of the Gospels. A survey of this field of research, keenly a.n.a.lytical and severely critical, is given by A. Schweitzer in _The Quest of the Historical Jesus_ (Engl. transl. by W. Montgomery. A. & C. Black, 1910. 416 pp., 8vo). Schweitzer writes with great scholars.h.i.+p and power, but decided polemic interest as a ”consistent eschatologist.”

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