C. Hassell Bullock > Quotes

“Religion that is confined to the sanctuary is worse than no religion at all, for it is false.”
― C. Hassell Bullock, An Introduction to the Old Testament Prophetic Books

“An interesting comparison of the similarities and differences in vocabulary between the two books is given by Naegelsbach in his commentary. His observations lead him to conclude that Lamentations was not written by Jeremiah, but certainly by an eyewitness of the fall.24 W. H. Hornblower, the subsequent editor and enlarger of Naegelsbach’s commentary, followed up on that study with a defense of Jeremianic authorship. His predecessor had capitalized on expressions that were frequent in Lamentations but not used often or at all in Jeremiah. The intriguing approach of Hornblower was to conduct a comparison between the vocabulary of Shakespeare’s poems and his plays. Within only a few verses selected from the Shakesperian poems, he found several words that did not occur at all in his many plays.25 His point was to show the tenuous nature of dependence upon vocabularic studies for disproving the matter of authorship.”
― C. Hassell Bullock, An Introduction to the Old Testament Prophetic Books

“To read and pray the Psalms is to join the voices of numberless people who too have read and prayed them, have felt their joy, anguish, and indignation.”
― C. Hassell Bullock, An Introduction to the Old Testament Poetic Books