The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah: an Exegetical and Doctrinal Commentary (Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scripture)

Presented here, in paperback for the first time, is John Peter Lange's 'Theologischhomiletisches Bibelwerk'. Intended to help preachers prepare sermons the commentary series is essentially biblical and evangelical catholic. This nineteenth-century commentary has served as a standard reference for more than a century. Many early reviewers regarded Schaff's edition with his additional material as superior to the original. It has proven to be a complete and useful commentary and continues to prove especially valuable to ministers. It contains critical annotations of the text and its translation, and a threefold commentary, exegetical, doctrinal, and homiletical. Under these three heads the text is viewed from every aspect.

Charles A. Briggs (1841-1913) was Davenport Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He is most famous for being one of the principle contributors to the 'Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament' (with Brown and Driver). His many publications include a commentary on Psalms (ICC), 'The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch, ' and 'The Authority of Holy Scripture.'

Philip Schaff (1819-1893), American theologian and church historian, was born in Chur, Switzerland on the fist of January, 1819. He was educated at the gymnasium of Stuttgart, and at the universities of Tuebingen, Halle, and Berlin, where he was successively influenced by Baur, Tholuck, and Neander. In 1843 he became Professor of Church History and Biblical Literature at the German Reformed Theological Seminary of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. His inaugural address on The Principle of Protestantism, delivered in German at Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and published in German with an English version by J. W. Nevin, was a pioneer work in the field of symbolics.