Books published since 29 'January 1914 



THEOLOGY 



Joshua.: The Hebrew and Greek Texts. By S. Holmes^ M.A., Lecturer 

 in Theology, "Jesus College, Oxford, and formerly Senior Kennicott Scholar. 

 Demy Svo. pp. viii + 8o. Price Js. net. 



The result of Hollenberg's enquiry into the texts of the Book of Joshua in 1876 

 was in many passages favourable to the Lxx ; he strongly denies deliberate alteration 

 but on the whole seems to uphold the general superiority of the M.T. 



Ten years later a far less favourable attitude was adopted by the great scholar 

 Dillmann ; he affirms that the value of LXX, in this book as well as in others, has been 

 much overestimated. Other scholars have given their support to this view, and 

 Holzinger (1901) explicitly affirms that the statement of Dillmann — that LXX does not 

 offer a more original text, but represents in many cases a deliberate endeavour to avoid 

 difficulties — still holds good. 



The present thesis dissents from this position and offers some fresh reasons in favour 

 of the superiority of the LXX : 



(1) The phenomenon of double and sometimes more frequent omission of the same 

 word or expression in LXX in a large number ot passages. 



(2) The circumstance that in several cases where the two texts vary from one 

 another, each text is consistent with itself; thus suggesting the hypothesis of a deliberate 

 and systematic revision. 



(3) The fact that the confused LXX passage, ch. v. 'w. 4 f , when turned back into 

 Hebrew requires only a slight emendation to give an intelligible text manifestly earlier 

 than M.T. 



Evolution and the Need of Atonement. By Stewart A. McDowall, M.A., 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, Assistant Master at Winchester College. 

 Crown "ivo. pp. Ar.v+184. Price i^s. bd. net. 

 A second edition, revised and enlarged. The author addresses his work to those 

 who are oppressed with the difficulties of their faith not as an apologetic, but as a re- 

 statement of certain fundamental doctrines of Christianity from that point of view 

 which the spirit of the age forces upon us. In the new edition a considerable section 

 has been added to the discussion of original sin, and the treatment of the Atonement 

 itself has been amplified by a new chapter linking the two portions of the book more 

 closely. 



Nestorius and his place in the History of Christian Doctrine. By 



Friedrich Loofi, D.D. See p. 4. 



The Canticles of the Christian Church. By James Meams, M.A. See 

 p. 4. 



The Poem of Job. ^ ranslated in the metre of the Original by E. G. King, 

 D.D. See p. 5. 



The Fourfold Gospel. Section IL The Beginning. By Edwin A. 

 Abbott. Diatessarica, Part X, Section H. See p. 4. 



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