Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 15 (Paperback)

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. 1858-01-01 edition. Excerpt: ...of buildings and remains are more authentic and reliable than many hitherto given to the public. These have been reproduced by the engravers in the best style, and they are worked into the letter press with care. The mechanical execution of the volume deserves the highest praise. In the quality of the paper, the clearness of the text, and the neatness and beauty of the illustrations, it is one of the finest specimens of the typographic art ever issued in the United States. The work is divided into three principal parts, which treat severally of " Jerusalem as it was," " Jerusalem as it is," and "Jerusalem as it is to be." The first of these divisions occupies more than one half of the volume. The topics discussed under this division are the local features of the city and its environs, its various quarters as mentioned in the Bible and by Josephus, its walls, towers, gates, castles, citadels, fortresses, palaces, tombs and sepulchral monuments, the temple, the fountains, aqueducts and reservoirs, and the changeful fortunes of the city under Pagan, Moslem, and Christian domination. Dr. Barclay is, we believe, the only writer who has attempted to identify every locality of ancient Jerusalem upon the surface of the present city and its surrounding ruins. In his catalogue of names and his array of arguments and measurements, he exhibits an enthusiasm worthy of all praise; but his anxiety to make this identification complete, sometimes leads him to hasty assumptions and untenable positions, which impair the confidence of the reader in his conclusions. This plan, moreover, compels the author to enter largely into minutiaj that can interest only the scholar, while yet his work does not present the scholarly attractions of profound learning and...