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DAVISON, Dr W. T. The Spirit of Modern Methodism. The BLASS' EUANGELIUM SECUNDUM LUCAM By the Rev. ALFRED GRIEVE, B.A., Berlin, 131 135 141 145 149 157 By Professor W. R. SORLEY, M.A., Uni- 172 OF THE By Professor J. G. TASKER, Handsworth, 174 178 SCHULE By the Rev. Professor J. S. BANKS, 184 By Professor THOMAS M. LINDSAY, D.D., 187 193 194 197 ALLEN'S CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS WRIGHT'S SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF MACKENZIE'S A MANUAL OF ETHICS WEBER'S JÜDISCHE THEOLOGIE NAUMANN'S DAS DEUTERONOMIUM STUDIEN By the Rev. JAMES LINDSAY, B.D., By the Rev. LEWIS A. MUIRHEAD, B.D., By the Rev. C. G. M'CRIE, D.D., Ayr, . {By Principal J. WITTON Davies, B.A., Ph.D., Nottingham, 199 202 Vol. VIII.-No. 2. 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RECORD OF SELECT LITERATURE, 220 243 The Early History of the Hebrews. By the Rev. A. H. Sayce, Professor of Assyriology at Oxford. London: Rivingtons, 1897. 8vo, pp. v.-xv., 1-492. Price, 88. 6d. PROFESSOR SAYCE's last book does not demand a lengthy notice, since the greater part of it consists of matter which has appeared in some of his previous publications, such as The Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments (1893), and Patriarchal Palestine (1895). The present work professes to relate the history of the Hebrews from the time of the Patriarchs to that of Solomon. "During the last few years," says the author in the Preface, "discovery after discovery has come crowding upon us from the ancient East, revolutionising all our past conceptions of early Oriental history, and opening out a new and unexpected world of culture and civilisation." The reader will naturally ask, What evidence has Professor Sayce, in consequence of these discoveries, been able to bring forward on the subject of the history of Israel during the period in question? Unfortunately it must be said that, as to all the main points at issue, the testimony which he has produced amounts to nothing. We possess, it is true, many inscriptions which are far older than the time of Solomon; but, with a single exception, none of these documents contains the faintest allusion to the Israelites. The single exception is an obscure reference in a well-known Egyptian inscription discovered by Professor Flinders Petrie; here Israel figures in a list of foreign nations who are said to have been vanquished by King Meneptah II. (fourteenth century B.C.). According to Professor Sayce, the passage is to be rendered : "The Israelites are spoiled so that they have no seed" (p. 159). This seems sufficiently vague, and what makes the matter worse is that Professor Sayce himself doubts the veracity of the “ courtpoet" by whom the inscription was composed. "He has skilfully combined the victories of Meneptah with those of his father, and given him the credit of conquests which he had not made" (p. 160). Thus all the external testimony as to "the early history of the Hebrews" reduces itself to one doubtful phrase. How, therefore, are we to test the trustworthiness of the Biblical narratives which relate to this period? Are the Patriarchs, for example, to be regarded as real persons? Did the Israelites enter Palestine peace |