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THE LEVITICAL PRIESTS:

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CRITICISM OF THE PENTATEUCH.

By Rev. Prof. S. I. CURTISS, Ph.d.

With Introduction by Professor DELITZSOH.

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MESSIANIC PROPHECIES.

BY PROFESSOR DELITZSCH.

Translated from the Manuscript
BY PROFESSOR S. I. CURTISS.

'We should have said, even without opening this volume, that few men could do this work so well as Delitzsch; we say it still more emphatically with the book open before us. We find in it that same inner-sightedness which gives all his work its special value, and we discover traces of that Hebraic cast of mind which makes him so peculiarly helpful in Old Testament studies.'—British and Foreign Evangelical Review.

'These lectures are of very high value; . . . cannot be too highly commended.'—Scotsman.

'They are a most attractive epitome of the subject with which they deal; and not the least attraction in them, to one who "naturally careth for these things," will be that they are rather a guide to study than a substitute for it, and that while they display the rich fruit of the realm of prophecy, they leave its territory to be explored.'—London Quarterly Review.

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'The student will find here a most admirable summary of the results attained by ancient and modern research, an invaluable help to memory when he wishes to recall what the prophets have said of the Messias, and how others have interpreted the prophets. We have seen no other book in German or in English which can at all compete with the little work before us.'—Dublin Review,

PREFACE.

THE following manual of Old Testament History is one of Professor Delitzsch's four courses of University lectures on Biblical Theology. As such it has never been published in Germany. It is essentially an accurate reproduction of the paragraphs delivered to the theological students in Leipzig during the summer of 1880.

Although I was primarily moved to undertake this translation for the use of my students, yet I have found these lectures so stimulating and helpful in my own study of the Old Testament, that I venture to offer my rendering of them to the public, especially after the generous reception accorded to the Messianic Prophecies by the friends of Dr. Delitzsch in Great Britain one year ago.

SAMUEL IVES CUETISS. Leipzig, July 28, 1881.