DISSERTATION • 



UPON THE 



CHRONOLOGY 



OF THE 



JUDGES OF ISRAEL. 



Br 

 HUGH. B. AUCHINLECK, Schol. T. C. D. 



Read, April 10, 1609. 



L HE question I have undertaken to examine is of consi- 

 derable importance in the results which it indicates, and the 

 consequences to which it leads us ; both, as affording new 

 and authentic testimony, to the truth, and accuracy, of ihe 

 Jewish records; and as obviating one great ground of sceptical 

 objection, and remark, on the alledged inconsistencies,and un- 

 certainty, attending the history, or chronology, of the sacred 

 writings. Nor is it devoid of a certain degree of interest, 

 and attraction, even to those, who, in a i-eligious or historical 

 point of view, may undervalue the relative importance of 

 the controversy. Perhaps, from the innumerable pages of 

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