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

William Oscar Emil Oesterley (1866-1950) was a British scholar, professor of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis at King’s College, London, from 1926.

Works

Oesterley published extensively on the Bible, the Apocrypha, Hellenistic Judaism, and Jewish history.

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 (1908 Oesterley), book

• The Doctrine of the Last Things, Jewish and Christian (1908 Oesterley), book

• The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach; or, Ecclesiasticus (1912 Oesterley), book

• The Books of the Apocrypha (1914 Oesterley), book

• The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (1917 Charles/Oesterley), book

• The Wisdom of Solomon (1918 Oesterley), book

• A Short Survey of the Literature of Rabbinical and Mediæval Judaism (1920 Oesterley, Box), book

• The Jewish Background of the Christian Liturgy (1925 Oesterley), book

• 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) (1933 Oesterley), book

• An Introduction to the Book of the Apocrypha (1935 Oesterly), book

• The Gospel Parables in the Light of Their Jewish Background (1936 Oesterley), book

• Readings from the Apocrypha (1939 Oesterley), book

• The Jews and Judaism during the Greek Period (1941 Oesterley), book

Edited volumes

• Judaism and Christianity. Vol. 1: The Age of Transition (1937 Oesterley), edited volume

Biography

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