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Oswald Thompson Allis
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Chronological bibliography—

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Dr. Oswald Thompson Allis, Ph.D., D.D.
[9 September 1880 - 12 January 1973]
(Photo source: "Our Faculty" brochure, 1931)

1912
“The Transcendence of Jehovah God of Israel,” in Biblical and Theological Studies, by Members of the Faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary on Its Hundredth Anniversary (New York: Scribner, 1912), pp. [581]-634.

  • Reprinted, (Birmingham, AL: Solid Ground Christian Books, 2003), 634 p., [3] plates ; 24 cm.; ISBN: 193247417X 1932474188 (pb)

1913
Neubabylonische Briefe : zwanzig Briefe in Cuneiform texts XXII, (Leipzig : Druck von A. Pries, 1913), 63p.; 24 cm. “Kollationiert und bearbeitet von Oswald Thompson Allis.” A reprint of his dissertation (Berlin: Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1913), working with cuneiform texts housed at the British Museum’s Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. Teil 1 includes bibliographical references. 

1914
“Assyriological Research During the Past Decade.” The Princeton Theological Review, (April 1914): [229]-264. Abstract: “From an address delivered on Sept. 19th, 1913 ... at the opening of the 102nd session of Princeton Theological Seminary.”

1917
“The Bearing of Archaeology upon the Higher Criticism of the Psalms,” The Princeton Theological Review, 15.2 (April 1917): 277-324.

“The Comment on John IX. 38 in the American Revised Version,” The Princeton Theological Review 17.2 (April 1919): [241]-311.

1920
“The Name Joseph,” The Princeton Theological Review, 18.4 (October 1920): 645-659.
  • Abstract: Critique of George A. Barton’s suggestion that Joseph was a Babylonian name given to a place in Palestine and assumed by the Rachel tribes after the settlement in Canaan, as published in his work Religion of Israel (New York: Macmillan, 1918). Barton, George Aaron [1859-1942].

1923
“Thy Throne, O God, Is Forever and Ever” The Princeton Theological Review, 21.2 (April 1923): 236-266.

“The Conflict over the Old Testament” The Princeton Theological Review, 21.1 (January 1923): 79-115. Inaugural Address upon installation as Assistant Professor of Semitic Philology, Miller Chapel, Princeton Theological Seminary, 10 October 1922.  

1924
Jericho Prophets: Theological Liberals in the Days of Elijah and Today (Philadelphia, PA: Westbrook Publishing, for The Presbyterian, 1924), 30pp.

1925
“A Modernistic View of Jeremiah,” The Princeton Theological Review, 23.1 (January 1925): 82 – 132.
  • Abstract: Review of Jeremiah: being the Baird Lecture for 1922, by George Adam Smith (New York: George H. Doran, 1924).

“Dr. Moffatt’s ‘New Translation’ of the Old Testament” The Princeton Theological Review, 23.2 (April, 1925): 1-51.
  • 1925 - reprinted as Dr. Moffatt’s “new translation” of the Old Testament : A Review (Chicago : Bible Institute Colportage Association, [1925?] ), 16 p.; 17 cm. [WTS]
 
“The Law and The Prophets” not The Prophets vs. The Law (Princeton, New Jersey, 1925), 32pp.

“The Problems of Bible Translation,” in The Foreign Missions Convention at Washington, 1925 (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1925), pp. 347-351.

1925-1926
“Old Testament Emphases and Modern Thought,” The Princeton Theological Review, Part I, 23.3 (July 1925); Part II, 23.4 (October 1925); Part III, 24.2 (April 1926): 252 – 307.

1926
“A New Standard Bible Dictionary,” The Princeton Theological Review 24.4 (October 1926): [568]-631.  

1927
“The Blessing of Abraham,” The Princeton Theological Review 25.2 (April 1927): [263]-298.

1928
“The Alleged Aramaic Origin of the Fourth Gospel,” The Princeton Theological Review 26.4 (October 1928): [531]-572.

1929
“Was Jesus a Modernist?,” The Princeton Theological Review, 27.1 (January 1929): [83]-119.

1931
Review of The Lost Tribes A Myth: Suggestions toward Re-writing Hebrew History, by Allen H. Godbey, The Evangelical Quarterly, 3.2 (April 15th, 1931): 199-203.

1934
“The Short Bible—Its Meaning and Menace,” in The Evangelical Quarterly, 6.1 (January 1934) 7-25.

1936
“Modern Dispensationalism and the Doctrine of the Unity of Scripture,” in The Evangelical Quarterly, 8.1 (January 1936) 22-35.
  • 1936 - (London: James Clarke & Co.; Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1936), 15 p.; 25 cm.

“Modern Dispensationalism and the Law of God,” in The Evangelical Quarterly, 8.3 (July 1936) 272-289.
  • 1936 - (London: James Clarke & Co.; Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1936), 19 p.; 25 cm.

1939
“The Birth-Oracle to Rebekah,” in The Evangelical Quarterly, 11.2 (15 April 1939) 97-117.

1943
The five books of Moses; a reexamination of the modern theory that the Pentateuch is a late compilation from diverse and conflicting sources by authors and editors whose identity is completely unknown, (Philadelphia, Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1943), xii, 319 p. 22 cm. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 305-344).
  • 1949 - Second edition, (Philadelphia, Presbyterian and Reformed, 1949, 2d edition), xii, 355 p.
  • 1964 - (Philadelphia, PA : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1964 [3rd ed.]), xii, 355 p. ; 22 cm.
  • 1969 – Third edition, (Philadelphia, PA : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1969, ©1949 [3rd ed.], xii, 355p.; 22 cm.
  • 1980 - (Phillipsburg, N.J. : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1980, ©1964 3d ed.), 355 p. ; 21 cm.; ISBN: 0875521029 (pbk.)
  • 1982 – Reprinted as Mose Ogyong (Soul T`ukpyolsi : Gidokkyo Munso Songyohoe, 1982), Korean translation by Jong-u-Kim, 417p.; 23 cm.
  • 1995 Reprinted as, Mose ogyong : ogyong i mumyong chojadul kwa p`yonjipchadul e uihae tayang hago sangch`ung toenun charyodul ro put`o hudae e p`yonjip toeot tanun iron ul chae komt`o handa (Soul-si : Kidokkyo Munso Son'gyohoe, 1995, edition: 5-p`an.), Korean translation by Chong-u-Kim, 417p.; 23 cm.; ISBN: 8934100214.
  • 2001 – Reprinted as The five books of Moses (Eugene, OR : Wipf and Stock, Pub., 2001, 1943), 355 p.; 23 cm.; ISBN: 1579108512.

1944
Bible Numerics (Chicago : The Moody Bible Institute, 1944), 24pp.; 18 cm.

1945
Prophecy and the church; an examination of the claim of dispensationalists that the Christian church is a mystery parenthesis which interrupts the fulfilment to Israel of the kingdom prophecies of the Old Testament , (Philadelphia, Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1945), ix p., 1 l., 339 p. 22 cm. Bibliographical references included in “Notes” (p. [285]-328).

  • 1945 - (London : J. Clarke, 1945), ix, 339 p. ; 21 cm.
  • 1947 - (Philadelphia : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1947), ix, 339 p. ; 22 cm.
  • 1955 - (Philadelphia : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1955), x, 339 p. ; 22 cm. Date on t.p. is 1945; preface dated 1955.
  • 1956 - reprinted as Yu yan yu jiao hui (Xianggang : Jidu jiao gai ge zhu yi xin yang fan yi she, 1956), 4, 254 p.; 21 cm. Translation by Yisa Ren and Issac C. Jen. [one copy located at the Chinese University of Hong Kong]
  • 1964 - (Philadelphia : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1964, ©1947), ix, 339 p. ; 22 cm.
  • 1972 - ( [Philadelphia]: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1972), 339 p.
  • 1974 - ([Philadelphia, PA]: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub., 1974, ©1947), x, 339 p. ; 21 cm.
  • 1977 - (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1977), x, 339 p.; 22 cm.
  • 1978 - (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1978), x, 339 p.; 22 cm.

1948
Revision or New Translation? “The Revised Standard Version of 1946,” A Comparative Study (Philadelphia, Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1948), ix, 164 p. 23 cm.  

“The New Presbyterian USA Curriculum For Sunday Schools,” The Southern Presbyterian Journal 7.14 (15 November 1948): 6-9; 7.15 (1 December 1948) 5-10; and 7.16 (15 December 1948) 12-15.

1950
The Unity of Isaiah: A Study in Prophecy (Philadelphia, Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1950), 134 p. 24 cm. Foreword by Clarence E. Macartney.
• Reprinted, (London: Tyndale Press, 1st British edition, 1951), 134 p. 24 cm.
• Reprinted, (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1955, ©1950), 134 p.; 21 cm.
• Reprinted, ([Nutley, NJ]: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1974), 134 p.; 21 cm.
• Reprinted, (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1975, Special Edition), 134 p.; 20 cm. Foreword by Clarence Edward Macartney.
• Reprinted, (Nutley, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1977; distributed by Baker Books), 134 p.; 21 cm.
• Reprinted, (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1980), 134, [1] p.; 21 cm.
• Reprinted, (Eugene, OR: Wifp and Stock Publishers, 2000), 134 p.; 23 cm.

1951
God Spake By Moses (Nutley, NJ : The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1958, 1951), 159pp.; 21.5 cm.
  • Reprinted, (London : Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1951), 159 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Reprinted, (Nutley, N.J., Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1958), 159 p. 22 cm.
  • Reprinted as Moxi wu jing yao yi (Xianggang : Jidu jiao gai ge zhu yi xin yang fan yi she, 1956), 10, 166 p.; 22 cm. Chinese translation by Zhonghui Zhao and Charles H Chao. [Chinese University of Hong Kong holds a copy]
  • Reprinted as Mose ogyong yakhae (Seoul : Saengmyong ui Malssumsa, 1981 1-p`an.), 222 p.; 23 cm.; ISBN: 8904010020. Korean translation by Chong-jin Ch`oe. [one copy located at Fuller Theological Seminary]

1953
Revised Version or Revised Bible? : A Critique of the Revised Standard Version of the Old Testament (1952) (Philadelphia : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1953), 2 v. in 1 : 23 cm. Cover title. Volume 1 originally published 1948./ Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.
  • 1963 - (Philadelphia : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1953, 1963), iv, 60, [4] p.; 23 cm. Preface note: "The reprinting of this brochure has provided the opportunity for the makng of a few corrections and for the adding of an Appendix."

1957
“A prince and a great man is fallen in Israel,” in The Memorial Service for the Rev. Clarence Edward Macartney, D.D. in the Arch Street Presbyterian Church ... (Philadelphia, PA : s.n., 1957), 19pp.; 21 cm. Includes “He being dead yet speaketh” by Galbraith Hall Todd. Cover title: Tributes to Clarence Edward Noble Macartney. [photocopy; one original copy located in the Center’s Clarence E.N. Macartney collection.

1959
„ “The Christian’s Three-Fold Cord,” The Southern Presbyterian Journal, 18.22 (30 September 1959): 9, 11-12.

1960
“Jesus Lives!,” The Presbyterian Journal, 18.51 (20 April 1960): 7-8. The New English Bible, the New Testament of 1961 : A Comparative Study (Philadelphia : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co. ; Grand Rapids : Distributed by Baker Book House, 1963), vi, 71 p. ; 24 cm.

1966
The Proposed Confession of 1967 : Comments on “the proposal to revise the confessional position of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. ” (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1966?), [12 p.]; 22 cm.

1972
The Old Testament; Its Claims and Its Critics [Nutley, N.J.] Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1972; distributed by Baker Book House), xii, 509 p. 23 cm.

Editorial Work—
Wilson, Robert Dick, Studies in the Book of Daniel : Second Series (New York [etc.] Fleming H. Revell Co., 1938), 2 p. l., 3-286 p. 23 cm. Edited by O.T. Allis.; cf. Introduction.
  • 1972 - (Grand Rapids, Mich., Baker Book House, 1972, ©1917), 2 v. in 1. 23 cm.; ISBN: 0801095301
  • 1979 - (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1979, 1917), 2 v. in 1 ; 22 cm.; ISBN: 0801096243 “Issued 1979 ... from the edition issued 1917.” Vol. 2 originally edited by O. T. Allis. Includes indexes. Bibliography: v. 1, p. 391-396.

Undated
Modern dispensationalism--Darby to Scofield : a historical and critical study of the “parenthesis” method of interpreting Scripture [1900-1983?, vi, 500, 81 p.; 29 cm.; typescript carbon copy. Includes bibliographical references.

Media
A Historical View of Split at Princeton, WTS, Dispensationalism (Mt. Olive, MS: Mt. Olive Tape Library, 1979-1982?), Audio cassette, 1-7/8 ips, mono. [recording now preserved at the Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Taylors, SC]

Festschrift—
The Law and the Prophets : Old Testament Studies prepared in honor of Oswald Thompson Allis [Nutley, N.J.] : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1974), xxv, 499 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 23 cm.

Works concerning Oswald T. Allis—
Wood, John Halsey, Jr., 2005, “Oswald T. Allis and the Question of Isaianic Authorship,” in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 48.2 (June 2005) 249-261.


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