Diatessarica, Parts E-F A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON Part E CLUE A GUIDE THROUGH GREEK TO HEBREW SCRIPTURE Demy 8vo. cloth. Price 7s. 6d. net. "So far as we can judge, they (the arguments) are learned and ingenious, though perhaps insufficient to carry the whole weight of his hypothesis."-Times. "Worked out in great detail and with unflagging interest. For Dr Abbott throws life into everything he touches....A contribution to the Synoptic Problem,' claiming examination and commanding attention."-Expository Times. "We have nothing but thanks to offer Dr Abbott for the patient industry with which he has collected and put before us, with great clearness, dozens of experiments upon which even those who are not experts either in Hebrew or Greek or Biblical criticism can exercise their common sense.”—Guardian. "A very ingenious and very interesting argument."-Daily News. 66 Of extraordinary interest and suggestiveness.”— Manchester Guardian. "The theory may be commended as most ingenious, and its application as very interesting and full of light on many vexed readings.”— Scotsman. "Certainly, as far at least as the Septuagint is concerned, he has found a Vera Causa."-Aberdeen Free Press. "Learned, acute, and ingenious."-British Weekly. THE CORRECTIONS OF MARK ADOPTED BY MATTHEW AND LUKE Demy 8vo. cloth. Price 15s. net. "There is something very attractive in the way in which Dr Abbott forces the documents to tell their secret history, not by brilliant guesswork but by the use of rigid scientific method."-Manchester Guardian. "There is a great deal of valuable information in this second instalment of Dr Abbott's great work, whether one agrees with the main thesis or not."-Guardian. "Full of acute and learned criticism."-Pilot. "The industry and ingenuity displayed through the work are marvellous. In this attempt to solve the Synoptic variations Dr Abbott is as ploddingly persevering as he is dazzlingly original."-Expository Times. "One excellent feature in it is the effort to bring the whole evidence within reach of an intelligent English reader.”—Dundee Advertiser. "As an exposition of the documentary theory of the origin of the Gospels, Dr Abbott's work promises to hold a high place." Glasgow Herald. "Deserves to be read with the utmost care."-Outlook. Part H FROM LETTER TO SPIRIT AN ATTEMPT TO REACH Demy 8vo. cloth. Price 20s. net. "The candid and reverent spirit in which the book is written wins the reader's sympathy....The criticism exhibited is often acute and it is set forth with an accumulation of detail which is evidence of persevering 44 A. VI. research ;...For the writer's ability, labour, and candour we have great respect...."-Guardian. "The book is noteworthy as a defence on new grounds of the historical tradition present in the Fourth Gospel, and the author's diligence in collecting details from every quarter must be universally admired.”– Athenæum. "A monument of painstaking comparison and analysis.......The appendices and indices teem with suggestive material.......He has steeped himself in the spirit, and he has logically explained much which to other critics is mere opportunity for wriggling."-Outlook. "The notion that St John wrote not to supplement the Synoptics but to substitute a spiritual for a materialistic conception of Jesus...is exceedingly suggestive and worked out with much ingenuity."— Daily News. "A fresh illustration of the author's sound learning and keen exegetical insight."-Daily Chronicle. "Very original and suggestive."-Cambridge Review. "To the proving of his case Dr Abbott brings all the wealth of curious learning and the singular fertility of linguistic conjecture for which he is so justly distinguished among Biblical critics of the day."— Scotsman. "There is in the book...a large amount of careful work which will be found helpful to all who are seeking their way through the letter to the spirit of the Gospels."-Bookman. "Has the true scientific temper.......The discussion does not fail to be stimulating and suggestive."-Literary World. "The result at once of great learning, indomitable industry, and remarkable ingenuity, this is a work that stimulates and rewards.”— Aberdeen Free Press. "Often throughout the book the incidental matters which crop up are of the greatest interest. For instance, what Dr Abbott says on the probability of Christ's teaching about 'taking on oneself the yoke' becoming misunderstood and perverted to 'taking up the cross' is luminously suggestive.......It is a storehouse of learning, and, quite apart from the conclusions which Dr Abbott seeks to establish, it will be valued for the recondite material both from Jewish and Christian early writings which it brings together and makes easily accessible."--Christian World. "He spares no pains to bring a very ingenious discussion up to date and well within the reach of those who have no knowledge of Greek or Hebrew."-Dundee Advertiser. "The accumulation of such facts is a task of great labour, but is valuable to all workers in the field of Biblical criticism, whether they agree with Dr Abbott's view of the Synoptic problem or not.......The curious facts which he has gathered about the Rabbinical beliefs concerning voices from heaven' contain much that is new to us.”—Pilot. "A valuable contribution to the Synoptic problem."-Leeds Mercury. "The strength of his position lies in the accumulation of particulars. He must be examined page by page and point by point."— Expository Times. "Warm thanks are due to the author for the immense labour he has undertaken."-Primitive Methodist Quarterly Review. "With thorough and penetrating scholarship, and a degree of toil beyond all praise, Dr Abbott has sought out parallels to facts and expressions in the Gospels for the purpose of elucidating their meaning, and tracing them to their original sources.......Such a work as this, which certainly puts to shame the sluggishness and the spiritual indifference, and the miserable formality ordinarily displayed in the study of the Gospels, will require prolonged and serious investigation, such as cannot be given to it in a notice like the present. It materially advances our comprehension of the intellectual conditions and methods of instruction of Christ's age...."-Baptist Magazine. "They are full of minute and curious learning, and help to advance Dr Abbott's plea that the study of the Aramaic versions is of essential importance for the interpretation of the Gospels."-Manchester Guardian. "The book is not more remarkable for its striking hypotheses than it is for its careful and systematic collection of evidence....Dr Abbott's recent series of volumes (soon happily to be followed by another) really constitute a new and enlightening commentary on some of the most important passages in the New Testament. And the commentary is equally illuminative of the Rabbinical passages quoted.......It is full of learning, of originality, but above all of suggestiveness.......Page after page scintillates with brilliant points.......Dr Abbott has clearly relied a good deal on secondary sources, but he has so carefully verified and examined his materials, he has applied to them so penetrating and sound a criticism, that his book is distinguished by its accuracy in details. Dr Abbott stands forth as a conspicuous example of the salvation which lies in precision of thought and exactness of method."-Jewish Quarterly Review. The Classical Review, stating in detail "what results the writer has attained which seem tolerably certain to be correct," adds "Incidentally Dr Abbott gives us a most valuable dissertation of 43 pages on Bath Kol, i.e. Voices from Heaven in Jewish Tradition, reprinting in an Appendix Pinner's collection of examples from the Talmuds and Targums; he gives us a useful restatement in another Appendix of the reasons for believing that the so-called Second Epistle of St Peter is a forgery, and in yet another a convincing review of Eusebius' promise to record the evidence accessible to him that bore on the canonicity or authenticity of Christian writings. He demonstrates anew the correctness of Bishop Lightfoot's interpretation of that promise.......The temper of Dr Abbott's writing is worthy of his subject...he has shown us the true significance of unregarded words." PARADOSIS OR "IN THE NIGHT IN WHICH HE Demy 8vo. cloth. Price 7s. 6d. net. "We are inclined to think that the present instalment, although the thinnest in bulk, is the most valuable of the four.......Dr Abbott exhibits his customary industry, acuteness, and learning.......One finds oneself, much more often than usual, able to follow not only with interest, but with willing assent."-Guardian. The Dundee Advertiser, while calling attention to the "conjectures in the chain of argument," says "There is, however, a strong temptation to think Dr Abbott's hypothesis established when it is seen to be the key that fits into one difficulty after another," and adds "For ingenious and scholarly work there is nothing being done at present in the English language like the series of volumes by Dr Edwin A. Abbott. It is research work, painstaking and slow and elaborate." "In great detail and with learned elaboration the various passages are examined; but the main topic of this book is often the occasion for interesting digressions into paths in which Dr Abbott is always an instructive, if not always a convincing, companion."— London Quarterly Review. "A marvel of minute scholarship and of patient industry."— Westminster Magazine. "He has, in a rare degree, the true scientific temper, which knows that far-reaching implications may be hidden in apparently trivial facts. Indeed it may safely be said that, had he never established a single conclusion, his investigations would, for their patient and unobtrusive thoroughness, alone suffice to earn him an honourable name. This latest book, the fourth part of the 'Diatessarica,' is a case in point.......The real value of the book, however, is not in the conclusion but in the way in which the conclusion is supported.......Dr Abbott works out his argument with great elaborateness and detail, and to follow it conscientiously is to be amply repaid, whether one end in agreement or dissent. One of Dr Abbott's incidental remarks is too valuable to pass without reference: 'We need,' he says, 'to become more, not less, anthropomorphic in our thoughts about God, after the pattern of the best anthropomorphism of |