“This work is encyclopaedic in character. The introduction, covering 110 pages, is the fullest treatment we have seen on all the questions that concern a critical study of the Psalter.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The possibility of accidental or deliberate changes of reading must constantly be remembered in dealing with such a book as the Psalter. It is in this respect that Dr. Briggs is perhaps deficient, and this deficiency, for me, throws much doubt on his metrical arrangements of the psalms. I consider his work of great educational use, and that even for very advanced students it will save much trouble to have the book near at hand.” T. K. Cheyne.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 453. Ja. ’07. 3040w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Briggs is hardly critical enough, nor has he sufficient experience in the use of all the newest and best methods.” T. K. Cheyne.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 944. Jl. ’07. 1530w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Dr. Briggs’s ‘Commentary on the Psalms’ is dominated by the author’s interest in their metrical structure. There is no harm in arranging a Psalm in strophes and lines, if one so desire, but when enthusiasm for metre dictates important textual emendations, as is frequently the case with Dr. Briggs, the matter is more serious.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 330. F. 7, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Quite up to the highest German standard. No other writer has paid more attention to poetic structure, and he has used its laws in his correction of the text.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 974. Ap. 25, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Much in his volume demands most careful consideration; but we cannot but think that a verdict of ‘not proven’ will have to be returned on many of his most confident and dogmatic conclusions as regards both the text and the development of the Psalter.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“These volumes command respect as a work of immense industry. No existing commentary on the Psalms can be compared with them for exhaustive thoroughness.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 61. Jl. 18, ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Briggs, Charles Augustus, and Hugel, Friedrich H. von.= Papal commission and the Pentateuch. *75c. Longmans.