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THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN 1876 



IN attempting a brief sketch of what has been done for 

 Old Testament studies in 1876, I omit some works which 

 have already been noticed in these pages, and make no 

 pretence to bibliographical completeness, especially as 

 regards magazine articles and the like. Those who wish 

 to see complete lists of publications on our subject may 

 be referred to the fortnightly statements in the Theo- 

 logische Liter aturzeitung, and to Friederici s Bibliotheca 

 Orientalis for 1876 (London : Triibner & Co.). 



Giving the customary precedence to works of an 

 encyclopaedic character, we first take up the new edition 

 of Herzog s great Encyclopedia, which began to appear 

 last year and is to be completed within seven or eight 

 years in 150 shilling parts. The articles bearing on the 

 Old Testament are almost all new, and several of the best 

 younger scholars of Germany are contributors. Thus 

 Schiirer writes on the Old Testament Apocrypha, and 

 Baudissin displays his great erudition in the difficult 

 field of Semitic polytheism in articles on Adrammelech 

 and Anammelech. The minor articles are mainly by 

 F. W. Schultz, and though carefully compiled, and better 

 than those in the former edition, are not always quite up 

 to the mark in fulness of information and references to 

 relevant literature. As a Bible dictionary, indeed, the 

 Encyclopedia, which is properly an encyclopaedia of 



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