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issued a second volume of Mr. F. Smith s translation of 

 EwakTs Prophets, comprising Isaiah, Obadiah, and Micah, 

 and carrying the reader to the end of the first volume of 

 the original. No student of the Old Testament can afford 

 to overlook this work of Ewald, which is not only of 

 first-rate importance for scientific exegesis, but full of 

 profound insight into the spirit of the prophetic writings, 

 and so is much more useful for practical exposition than 

 almost any other recent commentary. The translation 

 appears to be very accurate, though Ewald s somewhat 

 stilted style of expression looks more unnatural in the 

 English. 



Among the exegetical monographs before me, a place 

 of honour is due to the collection of all Jewish interpreters 

 on Isaiah liii. (Oxford : Parker. Vol. i., Texts ; vol. ii., 

 Translations], gathered from printed books and MSS. 

 by the well-known Orientalist, Ad. Neubauer, with 

 translations by the editor and Mr. Driver, and an intro 

 duction by Dr. Pusey, to whose zeal and liberality the 

 public owes so remarkable a contribution to the history 

 of exegesis. The outcome of the laborious and bulky 

 collection is essentially negative. No continuous thread 

 of ancient traditional exegesis runs through these Jewish 

 writings, a conspicuous proof of the failure of the 

 synagogue to reach any consistent view of the passage 

 which with all its difficulties of detail has ever been 

 luminous to the Church. The student who desires to 

 practise himself in New Hebrew will find a valuable aid 

 in the translations. 



The prominence given to the book of Job in university 

 lectures in Germany has made the literature of that 

 country unusually rich in exegetical studies on this part 

 of the Old Testament. To these have been added Con 

 tributions to the Criticism of Job, by Lie. Carl Budde 

 (Beitrage zur Kritik des Buches Hiob. Bonn : Marcus) ; 

 and Contributions to the Exposition of the book (Beitrage 

 zur Erklarung d. B. Job. Leipzig : Hinrich), by Dr. J. 



