An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures

Reissued in five parts, this is the revised four-volume tenth edition (1856) of an influential work of biblical scholarship.

Part I. A Sketch of the Historical and Physical Geography of the Holy Land: 1. Historical geography of the Holy Land; 2. Physical geography of the Holy Land; Part II. Political Antiquities of the Jews: 1. Different forms of government, and political state of the Hebrews, from the patriarchal times to the Babylonian Captivity; 2. Political state of the Jews, from their return from the Babylonish Captivity to the subversion of their civil and ecclesiastical polity; 3. Courts of judicature, legal proceedings, and criminal law of the Jews; 4. On the Jewish and Roman modes of computing time; 5. On the tributes and taxes mentioned in the scriptures; 6. On the genealogical tables of the Hebrews, and public memorials of events; 7. On the treaties or covenants, contracts, and oaths of the Jews; 8. Laws respecting strangers, aged, blind, deaf, and poor persons; 9. Of the military affairs of the Jews, and other nations mentioned in the scriptures; Part III. Sacred Antiquities of the Jews: 1. Of sacred places; 2. Sacred persons; 3. Sacred things; 4. Sacred times and seasons observed by the Jews; 5. Sacred obligations and duties; 6. On the corruptions of religion among the Jews; Part IV: Domestic Antiquities of the Jews: 1. On the dwellings of the Jews; 2. On the dress of the Jews; 3. Jewish customs relating to marriage; 4. Birth, nurture, etc., of children; 5. On the condition of slaves, and of servants; 6. Domestic customs and usages of the Jews; 7. On the occupations, literature, studies, and sciences of the Hebrews; 8. Amusements of the Jews; 9. On the diseases mentioned in the scriptures, treatment of the dead, and funeral rites; Appendix 1. Table of weights, measures, and money; Appendix 2. Chronological table; Appendix 3. Concise dictionary of the symbolical language of the scriptures; Appendix 4. Historical, biographical and geographical dictionary.