Retrofpee3 of German Literature.— Theology, Sc. 
«Commentary on the New Teftament, 
2 fourth-volume made its appearance. 
«—Conz,a talteful philologiit and poet, 
publifhed ‘* Morgenlandifche Apolo- 
gen, oder die Lehrweifheit Jefu in 
arabeln and Sentenzen,”—-Oriental 
Apologues; or, The Wifdom of Jefus 
in Parables and Proverbs; with an 
Appendix, containing a Differtation on 
Parables, and Contributions towards 
an Oriental Anthology.—The anony- 
mous author of a * Biblifche Theolo- 
gie des neuen Teftaments,”—Biblical 
Theology of the New Teftament, gave 
us as a companion thereto the follow- 
ing -works: * Reine Auffaffung des 
OUrchriftenthums in den Paulinischen 
Briefen”’—or, A View of Primitive 
Chriftianity, as exhibited in the Epifz 
tles of the Apoftle Paul ;—moreover, 
a ‘* Ausfiihrliche Erklarung der 
fammtlichen Weiflagungen des Neuen 
Teftaments,’—Full Explanation of all 
the Prophecies of the New Teftament ; 
—and, a * Sammlung Abweichender 
Vorftellungen der Neu-Teftamentali- 
fchen Schriftfteller tiber einen und den- 
felben Gegenftand”—Collection of Paf- 
fages, in which the Evangelifts have 
given different Reprefentations of the 
fame Object. In this laft-mentioned 
work it is far from being the author’s 
aim to reduce thefe diffonances to har- 
mony; and indeed none of his writ- 
ings can be clafled among the apo 
logies for the Scriptures. Onthe other 
hand, the * Monogrammata Herme- 
neutices Libr. N. T.”” by Beck, the 
Jearned philologit of Leipzig, is diftin- 
guifhed by prudent criticifm. 
Whilft Rofenmiiller continued to gra- 
tify the biblical fcholars of Germany, 
. by continuing his German tranflation 
ot Marth’s Notes and Additions to 
Michaelis’s Introduétion to the New 
Teftament; ErcHHORN, Michaelis’s 
fucceffor at the Univerfity of Géttin- 
gen, publifhed a third edition of his 
‘¢ Einleitung ins alte Teftament’’—In- 
troduétion to the Old Teftamentr, with- 
out, however, any material alteration 
in opinion and principles. 
Of the ‘* National Songs of the He- 
brews,” i.e. fuch poems as were written 
on purpofe to be fung, fome (viz. Exod. 
xv. 2 Sam.i. 19——27 3 Haiah xiv. 4—23 ; 
Pf. cxxxvii.) have been tranflated and 
illuftrated by Profeflor Justrr of Mar- 
burg, who had. before deferved well of 
biblical literature, by efteemed tranfla- 
tions of, and commentarics on, feveral 
poetical books of the Old Teftament. 
Mon Tuuy Maa, No. 117. 
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The veteran Velthufen of SrapE gave 
us “ Des Propheten Jefaias perfpecti- 
vifche Zeitgemelde,”—The’ Prophet 
Ifaiah’s perfpeétive Picture of the 
Times; being a free verfion, in various 
kinds of metre, of feleé& paffages from: 
the fecond divifion of his prophecies. 
The whole of another propher was il- 
luftrated by GOLDHORN, a young di- 
vine of Leipzig, in his valuable “ Ex- 
curfeén zum Buche Jonas ;” or, Re- 
marks on the Book of Jonah ; in which 
this narrative is fuppofed to have gra- 
dually arifen out of a long-continued 
tradition, as Eichhorn had before con- 
jectured ; in Goldhorn’s work, how- 
ever, it is confidered in a new point 
of view. The no lefs diligent than 
learned and liberal Profeflor Bauer, 
of Altdorf, completed (in the fecond 
volume) his ‘* Hebraifche Mythologie 
des Alten und Neuen Teftaments’’—= 
Hebrew Mythology of the Old and - 
New Teftaments: a work which, toge- 
ther with feveral others, will furnifh 
frefh materials for fuch a one as is now 
publifhing by Mr. Meyer, of Gottin- 
gen, viz. ‘** Gefchichte der Schrifter- 
klarung ;°—or, Hiftory of Biblical Cris 
ticifm, &c. 
A new Magazine for Biblical Lite- 
fature was begun by the Rev. Mr. 
SCHERER, an active clergyman in 
Heffe-Darmftadt, where theology is at 
prefent cultivated with confiderablear- 
dour. The fame SCHERER publifhed 
feveral popular works on the Hiftory 
of Religion; and whilft Scumip, of 
Gieffen continued his “ Handbuch der 
Kirchengeschichte,’’—-Compendium of 
of Church Hiftory, VaTER, who had 
given in a,German drefs the fubftance 
of the late Dr. Geddes’s biblical works, 
furnifhed excellent Synchronic Tables 
of Ecclefiaftical Hiftory. 
Of the works treating of particular 
parts of Ecclefiaftical Hiltory, the moft 
important was the ** Gefchichte der 
Entftehung und Aufbildung der Chrift- 
lichen Gefelfchaft’s-Verfafung im ro- 
mifchen Staate’’—Hiftory of the Origin 
and gradual Formation of the Conftitu- 
tion of the Chriftian Church in the Ra- 
man Empire; by the Profeflor Phank, 
a gentleman diftirguifhed by his liberal 
way of thinking, and an intimate know- 
ledge of his fubjeé. 
For the friends of the propagation of 
the Gofpel, which is now encouraged 
with renewed ardour by a certain party 
in Germany, as well as in Engiand and 
Holland, a clergyman of the name of 
ay? Brake 
