X PREFACE. 



there should have existed an advanced state 

 of science, at a time when Grecian litera- 

 ture and science were both in their infancy? 

 Professor Chwolson answers both questions, 

 knowingly and advisedly, in the affirmative. 

 Such a deduction would go far to shake the 

 faith of Jews and Christians in the Divine 

 origin of the sacred books of the Old Testa- 

 ment, and hence the cartel thrown down 

 by the Professor has brought forth many 

 replies on the Continent, to which reference 

 is made in the pages of M. Kenan's unan- 

 swerable essay ; and also three important 

 reviews of the work in this country, of 

 which that in the Christian Remembrancer 

 of April, 1860, claims precedence as to 

 date, and that in the Saturday Review of 

 September, in the same year, as to matter ; 

 both, however, highly instructive papers to 

 all who take interest in a subject of such 



