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Bibliotheca Sacra · Part IV

Article XLIII. Treatises and Dissertations upon the Book of Job.

SAm. Deylingii Disput. Sacr. tom. 1. Disput. 9. He maintains that Jobab is not Job. He has another Disputation upon chap. 3. ver. 5. Qui maledicunt diei, in his Observ. Sacr. tom. 3. chap. 13.

Joan. Ernest. Muller, de terra Job, Thes. Theol. Philol. Matthias Muller, de Angelorum concilio, Job 11. 17. ibid. tom. 1.

See upon the same Subject Bochart, t. 2. nov. Edit. Oper. Leyd. ann. 1707. p. 903. He has written likewise upon this Passage of Job, 38. 36. Quis posuit in visceribus hominis sapientiam? vel quis dedit gallo intelligentiam?

Joan. Reiskius, de morbo Job difficillimo, ibid. His Dissertation was printed at Helmstadt in 1685, in 4to. and in the Thes. Diss. Philol.

Vide et Joan. Pineda, in secundum morbum:

See our Dissertation in our Comment upon Job; and in our last Collection, tom. 2. p. 274.

George Wedel has likewise discoursed of it in his Philological Exercitations. See upon Kings.

Wilhelm. Ernest. Tentzel, de Phœnice ave, contra Fellium; printed at Wittemberg, 1681. and in the first Tome of the Philological Dissertations.

Andrew Habichorst has treated of the Assembly of the Angels, in 4to, at Rostock: It is not said in what Year.

See our Dissertation on these Words, Sicut palma multiplicabo dies, Job 29. 18. in our Comment upon Job; and in the new Collection of Dissertations, tom. 2. p. 286.

Other Dissertations upon different Subjects of the Book of Job.

George Gaspar Kirchmayer made a Dissertation on Behemoth and Leviathan; printed at Wittemberg, 1669, in 8vo. the second Edition. See above.

Gaspar Læscher has treated on the same Subject, at Lipsick, 1664, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran of Wittemberg, towards the end of the 17th Century.

Clement Schade has likewise discoursed of it; at Copenhagen, 1707, in 4to. He was a Danish Lutheran, and lived in the beginning of the 18th Century.

Francis Woerger wrote a Dissertation, wherein he examines who was the Leviathan, and they who cursed the Day; at Lubeck, 1699, in 4to. John Wall or Wallis has made a Treatise upon Job, in his Works printed at Amsterdam, in 1699, in fol.

John Henry Michaelis has a Disputation upon the Angel mentioned in the 33d chapter, ver. 13. at Hall, 1707, in 4to.

John Frederick Mayer published Job liberos suos sanctificans, at Gryphiswald, 1705, in 4to.

John Lassen wrote Job’s Complaints in German, at Nuremberg, 1661, in 4to.

Christopher Chemnitius has a theological Dissertation upon the Person and Book of Job, at Jena, 1665, in 4to.

James la Peyre treated of Job’s true Genealogy in French; printed at Paris, 1623, in 8vo. and wrote afterwards an Answer to Petavius, concerning the Original of Job; printed ibid. 1631, in 8vo, in French. George Witzleb made Prolegomena upon Job’s Age and Family; at Sorah, 1656, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, Professor of Divinity at Thuringe; and died in 1676.

George William Bayer has explain’d Job’s System of the World, upon ch. 26. ver. 7. at Hall, 1707, in 4to. He has discoursed likewise of the Sapphire, chap. 28. ver. 6. printed at Altorf, 1705, in 4to. Of Behemoth and Leviathan, 1708, in 4to.

Lastly, John George Abicht made a Disputation upon Job’s Goel, or Redeemer, chap. 19. ver. 25. at Lipsick, 1708, in 4to. See above.

John James Scheuchzer has treated of Job’s Disease, and of the North, in his Explanation of chap. 2. ver. 7, 8. and of chap. 26. ver. 7. under the Title of Tentamen Physicæ Sacræ, in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 11. p. 397, 409. He was of Zurich, born in 1672. studied at Altorf, in 1692. and at Utrecht, in 1694. was made Doctor of Physick, and Professor of the Mathematicks, in 1695. married in 1697, and was invited into Prussia in 1714. See the Catalogue of his other Works in the same Volume, p. 574, 578.

John George Schelhorn wrote a Disputation upon chap. 40. ver. 31. in the same Collection, tom. 4. p. 572, 588. Lipenius, in his Bibliotheca Theologica, tom. 2. upon Job, mentions abundance of other Authors, Catholick, Protestant, and Jewish, as well Criticks as Commentators, who have endeavoured to explain this Book, or some difficult Places of it.

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