The Decalogue: Being the Warburton Lectures Delivered in Lincoln's Inn & Westminster Abbey 1919-23

by R.H. Charles

Excerpt from The Decalogue: Being the Warburton Lectures Delivered in Lincoln's Inn and Westminster Abbey, 1919-1923
The subject of these Warburton Lectures I have - treated from three standpoints - the critical, the historical and the practical.
The Critical. - In the Introduction (pp. vii-lxiv) I have studied the Decalogue critically and have shown that it existed in various forms - at least five - its earliest dating from the close of the fourteenth century B.C., and its latest from the close of the third. The latest is preserved in the Nash Hebrew Papyrus (pp. viixxxiii). In its earliest and tersest form, in which each Commandment consisted of one brief crisp command (pp. xliv-xlviii), it comes from the great lawgiver, Moses. In the centuries that followed it received various accretions which were on the whole in keeping with the spirit of the original Commandments, save in the case of the Fourth as it is transmitted in Exodus xx. 11.
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362 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

About the author

Robert Henry Charles (1855–1931) was an Irish biblical scholar and theologian. He left parochial work in 1889 to devote himself to biblical research and became the greatest authority of his time in matters of Jewish eschatology and apocrypha. He became a canon at Westminster Abbey in 1913 and archdeacon there in 1919. His books include Eschatology (1913, 2nd ed), Between the Old and New Testaments (1914), and his edition of The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. (1913). He is known particularly for English translations of apocryphal and pseudepigraphal works, and editions including Jubilees (1895), the Book of Enoch (1906), and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (1908) which have been widely used. Among his other publications are The Apocalypse (1920), Divorce and Nullity (1927), and The Resurrection of Man (1930). He was educated at the Belfast Academy, Queen's College, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. He gained a D.D. and became Professor of Biblical Greek at Trinity College.