GENERAL QUESTIONS: I. What is the probable date of the book of
Malachi? 2. Describe its teachings regarding the temple service.
3. The need of a great moral awakening. 4. The doubts expressed by the
faithful in the community. 5. The encouraging promises held out to them.
6. Presentation of the problem of the faithful in the psalms of the
period.
SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. Contemporary Greek history and
literature. Goodspeed, _Anc. Hist._, 159-96; Bury, _Hist. of Greece_,
507-90; Jebb, _Greek Lit._, 109-20. 2. The earliest psalms. Briggs,
_Psalms_, I, LXXXIX-XCII; Cobb, _Bk. of Pss._, XI-XIV; Driver, _Lit.
of the O.T._, 371-2; McFadyen, _Introd. to O.T._, 238-50. 3. Psalm
literature among contemporary peoples. Breasted, _Hist. of Anc.
Egyptians_, 273-7; Jastrow, _Relig. of Bab. and Assyr._, 294-327.
Section XCVIII. The Problems and Teachings of the Book of Job.
GENERAL QUESTIONS: 1. Describe the structure of the book of Job.
2. The different literary units which have entered into it. 3. The
probable dates of these different sections. 4. Contents of the original
prose story. 5. The theme and contents of the great poem in 3-31,
38:1-42:6. 6. The different lines of progress in Job's thought. 7. The
meaning of the speeches of Jehovah. 8. The contribution of the book to the
solution of the problem of evil.
SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. The Babylonian prototype of Job.
Jastrow, in _Jour. of Bib. Lit._, XXV, Pt. II, 135-91. 2. Comparison of
Job with other great skeptical dramas. Owen, _The Five Great Skeptical
Dramas of History_. 3. The modern explanations of the problem of evil.
Royce, _Studies of Good and Evil_.