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CONTENTS
Title
Author's preface to first edition
Introduction
Object of an Introduction to the Bible, §1
Its History and Literature, §6
PART I.
Of the Bible-collection in general
Book I.
Name, constituent portions, order and division of the Bible
Constituent Portions of the First and Second Part, §8
Constituent Portions of the Third Part, §9
Order and Division of the Old Testament, §10
Order and Division of the New Testament, §11
Book II.
History of the origin of the Collection of scripture; or,
history of the Canon.
Chapter I.
History of the origin of the Old Testament Collection; or,
history of the Jewish Canon.
Importance and Value of the Hebrew Literature, §12, a
Origin and Progress of Hebrew Literature till the Exile, §12, b
Progressive Formation and Completion of
the Old Testament Collection
after the exile, §13
Pretended Authors of the Collection of the Old Testament, §14
Time of finishing the Old Testament, §15
Grounds of Reception into the Old Testament Collection, §16
Canon of the Sadducees, §17, aa
The pretended Alexandrian Canon, § 17, b
Chapter II.
History of the origin of the Collection of the New Testament,
and the Bible in general; or, a history of the Christian Canon
Earliest Traces of the Use of the Books of the New Testament, by the apostolic Fathers, §18
Traces of the Use of the New Testament in the early Writers of the Church, §19
Earliest Traces of a Collection of the Writing s of the New Testament §20
Two Collections of the Books of the New Testament, §21
Grounds on which these Books were received, §22
Use and Canon of the Old Testament among the Christians of the First Centuries, §25
Canon of the Greek Church in the Fourth Century, §26
Canon of the Latin Church in the Fourth Century, §27
Canon of the Protestants and modern Catholics, §28
Results of the History of the Canon in Respect to Criticism, §29
PART II.
General introduction to the canonical books of the Old
Testament
Book I.
On the original language of the Old Testament
Name, Country, and Origin, of the Hebrew Language, §30
Its Relation to the other Shemitish Languages, §31
Formation and Extinction of the Hebrew Language, §34
Means of learning the extinct Hebrew, § 35-38
I. Historical Materials, § 35, 36
1. The Tradition of learned Jews, §35
II. Philological Materials, §37
1. Etymology. 2. Comparison of the Dialects, §37
III. Context and parallel Passages, §38
Book II.
On the versions of the Old Testament
Classification and Literature of the Versions, §39, b
The various Classes of the Versions, §39, c
Chapter I.
The Greek versions
1. The Alexandrian Version. Its Origin, §40
Alexandrian Version continued, §41
Character of the Alexandrian Version, §42
Importance and Use of this Version, §43
The three anonymous Versions, &c, §44, d
III. Critical History of the Alexandrian Version
Further Corruption of the Alexandrian Version, §45, b
Other critical Recensions, §46
IV. The Descendants of the Alexandrian Version
1. The old Latin Version, and Jerome's Recension of it, §48
2. The Versions indirectly made into Syriac, §49
3. The AEthiopian Version, §50
6. The Georgian or Grusinian Version, §53
7. The Sclavic or Sclavonic Version, §54
8. Several Arabic Versions, §55
Chapter II.
Direct Oriental versions.
L The Chaldee Paraphrases, or Targums
Origin of the Chaldee Paraphrases, §57
2. Targum of Jonathan Ben Uzziel, §59
3. Targum of the pseudo Jonathan on the Pentateuch, §60
4. The Jerusalem Targum on the Pentateuch, §61
II. The Samaritan Version of the Pentateuch, §63
IV. Descendants of the Peshito
Arabic Versions from the Syriac, §65
1. From the Jewish-Hebrew Text, §66
2, The Samaritan-Arabic Version of Abu-Said, §67
VI Persian Version of the Pentateuch, §68
Chapter III.
The present Latin Vulgate.
I. Jerome's Version from the Hebrew, §69
The Reception of this Version, and Corruption of its Text. Origin of the new Vulgate, §70
Critical Attempts to correct this Version, §71
History of the printed Text of the Vulgate, §72
II. Descendants of the Vulgate
2. Arabic and Persian Translations of the Vulgate, §74
Book III.
On the Criticism of the text.
General View of the Subject of this Book, §75
Division I.
History of the text.
Chapter I.
History of the external form of the text.
Preliminary Remarks on Hebrew Palaeography, §76
1. Division into larger and smaller Passages, §77
The same Subject continued, §78
2. The Division into Stichs or Verses, §79
The same Subject continued, §80, a
The same Subject concluded, §80, b
Chapter II.
History of the text itself
Corruption of the Text of the Old Testament, §81
Probability that Errors would be introduced into the Text, §82
2. Falsification by Design, §84
Fate of the Text before the Canon was closed, §85
Origin of the Samaritan-Alexandrian Recension of the Pentateuch, §86
Critical Value of this Recension, §87
The Fate of the Jewish Text till the Composition of the Talmud, §88
Traces of a critical Care for the Text in the Talmud, §89
The Labors of the Masorites, and Contents of the Masora, §91
Eastern and Western Readings, §92
Completion of the Punctuation of the Text Readings of Ben Asher and Ben Naphtali, §93
History of the Text until the Invention of Printing, §94
The printed Text Principal Editions or Recensions, §95
Results of the History of the Text, §97
Division II.
Theory of the Criticism of the Hebrew Text
Object of the Criticism of the Old Testament, §99
General Theory of the Office of Criticism, §100
Chapter I.
The documentary means to aid in the Criticism of the Old
Testament.
General View and Division of the Subject, §101
I. Means of ascertaining the Text before closing the Canon, §102
II. Means of ascertaining the Text before the Time of the Masorites
Utility of the different Versions, §104
2. Quotations from the Bible by the Talmud and Rabbins, §105
III. Means of ascertaining the Samaritan Text, §107
IV. Means of ascertaining the Masoretic Text
A. Rolls of the Synagogue, §109
B. Private Manuscripts in the Chaldee Square Letter. Description of them, §110
The Writing Character used in the Manuscripts, §111
Subscriptions and other Marks of the Antiquity of Manuscripts, §112
The Writers of the Manuscripts, §113
C. Private Manuscripts in the Rabbinical Character, §114, a
Manuscripts of the Chinese Jews, §114, b
The Manuscripts of the Malabar Jews, §114, c
Chapter II.
Critical Maxims.
The most important Maxims in Respect to the Originality of the Reading, §117
I. Exegetico-Critical Grounds of Originality
1. Considerations drawn from the General Laws of the Mind
A. Logical Grounds of Originality, §118
B. Grammatical Grounds of Originality, §119
C. Rhetorical Grounds of Originality, §120
2. Considerations drawn from the peculiar Character of the Writer, §121
II. Historico-Critical Grounds of Originality, §122
Judgment of the Critical Witnesses as a Whole, §123
APPENDIX.
A. Catalogue of Books cited in tlie Old Testament, but now lost
B. Meaning of the Words Canon and Apocrypha
D. History of the Hebrew Language to the Time of its Extinction
E. History of the Hebrew Writing Character
F. Origin and History of the Hebrew Vowels, Accents, &c,
G. Specimens of the Kind of Difference between the two Papal Editions of the Vulgate
H. Parallel Passages in the Old Testament
