BIBLICAL CRITICISM ON THE FIRST FOURTEEN HISTORICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT; ALSO ON THE FIRST NINE PROPHETICAL BOOKS. BY SAMUEL HORSLEY, L. L. D. F. R. S. F. A. S. LATE LORD BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, Hurst, Rees, ORME, & BROWN, gift Tappa. Presb. Ússor, 12-31-1932 ADVERTISEMENT. THE detached and unconnected form in which the contents of the present Volumes were found among the papers of the late Bishop HORSLEY, made the Editor for some time doubtful on the propriety of their publication. But having himself derived considerable benefit and assistance from them in the prosecution of his professional studies, and being satisfied that, although they present not a finished and elaborate illustration of the Scriptural Books to which they relate, they do nevertheless comprise a valuable mass of important Biblical Criticism, he has at last determined to offer them to the attention of the Theological and Hebrew Scholar, In these Volumes will be found three valu able disquisitions which were published in the lifetime of the Bishop, and which are here reprinted, as forming a necessary link in the present chain of Sacred Criticism. The first, containing a General View of the first Three Chapters of Genesis, together with an Inquiry into the etymology and import of the Divine Names of ELOAH, ELOHIM, EL, JEHOVAH, and JAH, appeared in the British Critic of 1802, in a review on the late Dr Geddes' Critical Remarks on the Hebrew Scriptures. The second is a Critical Disquisition on the Eighteenth Chapter of Isaiah; and the third, a Translation of the Prophecy of Hosea. These are inserted as revised and corrected by their Author. At the end of the fourth Volume will be found Translations of Sacred Songs, with Notes critical and explanatory. These were evidently intended by their Author for publication; and 6 |