Joel
Joel names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Joel BOOK OF, a prophetic book of the Old Testament
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BOOK OF, a prophetic book of the Old Testament, written by Joel, the second of the minor prophets. Nothing is known of him except that he was the son of Pethuel. Joel seems to have lived in Judah. The date of Joel is doubtful. He has been placed in the reign of Joash (878- 838 B. c.), in that of Uzziah (809-756), in which case he was a contemporary of Amos, with whose prophecies several (Cf. Joel i: 4, ii: verses of Joel agree. 25 with Amos iv: 6-9; Joel iii: 4-6 with Amos i: 6-10; Joel iii: 16 with Amos i: 2, and ver. 18 with Amos ix: 13). Others suppose him to have lived in the reign of Joram (893 or 892-883-884 b. c.); or in that of Manasseh (699-644 B. C.). If there is a reference in Joel iii: 2 to the captivity of the 10 tribes, and in verse 1 to that of the two, this would indicate a late date, as the mention of the Grecians in verse 6 perhaps may do. The canonical authority of Joel has never been seriously disputed. JOE MILLER (from JOSEPH MILLER, 1684-1738, a witty actor, who was a favorite about the time Congreve's plays were fashionable), a stale jest. The compilation, "Joe Miller's Jests," published a year after the death of the supposed author, was the work of John Mottley (1692-1750), but the term has death been used to pass off, not only the original stock, but thousands of jokes manuut the factured long after Miller was buried ot only in the churchyard of St. Clement Danes. s of jokes Also a jest book, especially one in which Der was the jokes are old, and the wit the re- Clement 1 verse of sparkling. lly one in the wit th JOFFRE, MARSHAL JOSEPH
Joel BOOK OF Renan says about 100 years before the Captivity
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BOOK OF Renan says about 100 years before the Captivity. The Talmud originated the view, since adopted by various Biblical critics, that the book is only a parable. But against this view may be quoted Ezek. xiv: 14, 20, and James v: 11.
Joel the name of a Hebrew prophet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the name of a Hebrew prophet, and of more than 12 other persons mentioned in the Old Testament.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 called the date "doubtful" and ran through candidates from Joash in the ninth century to Manasseh in the seventh, with Renan's guess of about a century before the Captivity thrown in. Most scholars today place the book well after the Exile, in the Persian period around the fifth or fourth century BC, reading the standing temple, the intact city walls, and the Greeks buying Judean slaves in 3:6 as marks of a late setting rather than puzzles to be explained away. Copies of the Minor Prophets among the Dead Sea and Judaean Desert scrolls, unknown in 1921, showed that Joel's Hebrew text had been transmitted with little variation. Readers should also note that the middle entry on this page, citing Ezekiel 14 and James 5, concerns Job, not Joel, and has been misfiled by the scanning.
Written for this edition, 2026.