William O.E. Oesterley (1866-1950), scholar

William Oscar Emil Oesterley (1866-1950) was a British scholar.

Works

Books

• (with George H. Box). The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue: An Introduction to the Study of Judaism from the New Testament Period (London 1907)
• The Evolution of the Messianic Idea: A Study in Comparative Religion (London 1908)
• The Doctrine of the Last Things, Jewish and Christian (London 1908)
• The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach; or, Ecclesiasticus, in the Revised Version (Cambridge 1912)
• The Books of the Apocrypha: Their Origin, Teaching, and Contents (London 1914)
• The Wisdom of Solomon (London 1918)
• The Jewish Background of the Christian Liturgy (Oxford 1925)
• A History of Israel. Vol. 2: From the Fall of Jerusalem, 586 BC, to the Bar-Kokhba Revolt, AD 135 (1932 Oesterley), book
• II Ezra (the Ezra Apocalypse), with Introduction and Notes (London 1933)
• An Introduction to the Book of the Apocrypha (London 1935)
• The Gospel Parables in the Light of Their Jewish Background (London 1936)
• Readings from the Apocrypha (London 1939)
• The Jews and Judaism during the Greek Period: The Background of Christianity (London 1941)

Edited volumes

• Judaism and Christianity. Vol. 1: The Age of Transition (London 1937)