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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...It was from this book, the work of Ahmed Ebu Arabsich, that Gibbon derived the bulk of his facts, emulating the florid eloquence of his informant. The book in this department is, of course, Al Koran, of which a fine Turkish copy is here. Ancient Egyptian literature has received so much wholly new light from recent discoveries, that the older books in this collection have lost much of their supposed authority, though little of their interest. An exception must, of course, be made in the case of Belzoni's works, which trench upon the margin of present-day knowledge. To these must be added the valuable collection of autotypes of Papyri from the British Museum. Another branch of Biblical Archaeology is well but insufficiently illustrated, one book besides that of Layard on the Cuneiform Inscriptions being of special interest--Sir Henry Rawlinson's account of the now famous Behistun inscription, which gave the key to a great section of Perso-Babylonian history. Of versions of the whole or parts of the Old and New Testaments there are nearly seventy, most with commentaries, including more or less fully those in Ethiopic, Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew (N.T.), Persian, Turkish, and Syriac. The Syriac, derived from Hebrew through Chaldaic, is known in four versions, the Peshito, Philoxenian, Karkaphensian, and Curetonian. The first of these is here, in one of the best editions. Among the authoritative books on Old Testament Exegesis (about eighty in number) are the commentaries and treatises of Abarbanel, Cocceius, Clericus, Leusden, Carpzov, Schulz, Dindorf, Michaelis, Buxtorf, Calmet, and others, including Lightfoot, the study of whose Horce Hebraicce et TalmudiccB sheds a new light on the modes of thought and expression in New Testament times. From the sources here to b...
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