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devoted to tfce Rabbinical lexicon * §» d to discover the meaning of a doubtful word > or to obtain one to which some meaning could be affixed ^ had recourse to conjecture from the necessity of the sense , or arbitrary transpositions and substitutions of letters .
Very few in Europe , and perhaps none in Germatiy , followed the example of Castel , and studied ell the dialects of the descendants of Shem in a connected view . At
length , Cfomeyer in Germany , and Albert Schultens in Holland ^ one in a confined situation and with smalt effect , the other at the Iread of the university of Leyden * and with very"powerful influence , directed the studies of
Orientalists by a more rational method . 4 jVlichaelis had brought from the instructive school of his father a large store of oriental knowledge * But to digest this knowledge , to separate the gold
from the dross , to introduce more philosophy into the study of eastern literature , and make it more conducive to the explanation of tfoe scriptures * was the labour of
years * During the first ten years of his residence at Gottingen , he was diligently studying the sources of Hebrew philology , aiid tl * e writings of Schultens . The first fruit of his labours was his
** Treatise on the proper Method of learning the Hebrew Lan - guage /^ ( 17 # ft ) the last , " h i * Sup . plementa Lex . Heb / 3 which comprises the result of the studies of fiis whole life in this department . It consist * of a critical
examination of all ^ he Hebrew Lexicons , the acc ^ ptadon $ which th ey attribute to words , and the etymologies , wbich they assign fcrr them , according to the principles which
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he had laid down in his earlier years . Tlfose whd fcHtdiar Mm step by step through this work , will be amazed that a man of his susceptible and lively mind could stibnai t to the dfy i £ nS un * interesting labour of which it is
the fruit , and wonder not that it has its inaccuracies , but that they are so few * It isf&ftly'to be regretted that while he has made so faithful and diligent a use of all the printed sources of information , bis situation at Gdttingen should have afforded him no access to
the manuscript Oriental Lexicons . Here is a field opened to those scholars who are placed ill more fortunate circumstances . His grammars of the Syriac and Ar ^
bic languages ^ if . they contain nothing fundamentally new , after the works of his father , Erpenuis and Schultens exhibit the rules of grammar in an easier and more philosophical form * .
u philologicallabourson the Kew Testament me les $ meritorious than on the Old . In the latter he ted the way and carded
on the work alone , in the former he only followed and co-operated . He attached himself to Carpzov , Krebs and otheifs , who , ^ . boui bis time , abandoned the custom
that had prevailed of illuitratinf the langtiage of th ^ Kew Testasi raent from classical authors only , and compared its phraseology with that of Josephus , Philo ^ nd Ae
Septuagint- Bfichaelis contm bu ted his share , however ^ to die improvement thus made , by comparing Syriac , ChaWaic and Talraudical expressions With those ti the New Teatament . Na oae irf
his contemporaries equalled htm ill this ; but in profound and com * prchensivi knowledge of the Greek
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€ 6 Sketch of the Life of Mickadis .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/2/
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