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those which proceed from the recurrence of the same word , after a short interval , and from other peculiarities in the language , nr ill the method of making Hebrew MSS . The origin of the other class of various readings , in which ,
however , he sees no wilful corruption , he traces to an erroneous judgment in the custom of writing explanatory notes on the maroin , and to the difference in the modes of writing certain Hebrew words ^
We are next favoured by the author with a descriptive catalogue of such of the early editions of the Hebrew Bible as , ? in a critical view , are most entitled to
attention . At the same time * be directs his hearers and readers to the source of those marginal or Masoretic readings which are jseen in many of the editions * His account of ( he discovery of tbe Samaritan Pentateuch , bis subsequent . reflections and his
perspicuous narrative tcf the controversy about the antiquity of the ; Hebrew characters and points , are ; the most interesting passages of this Lecture .
On his eleventh he enters with stating what he means by the integrity of the Hebrew te } Lt and properly remarks that u the text ° f an ancient author may be
said to have preserved its integrity rf it has descended to the present age in such a state as , upon the vkole , the author gave it , " We * jte next presented with a view of Jta controversy on this subject ktween Morinus and Cappellus £ * the one side , and the Bttxtorfs , * & on the other . The history J » . the criticism of the Hebrew tt is then pursued . To an IDttm eratipn of some printed edi-
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tions succeeds an instructive narrative of the labours of Dr . Kennicott in the same field . Of this indefatigable editor the Pr 6 tess 6 r says , 4 t though he possessed lipt the Rabbinical learning of the two Buxtorfs * his merits were
greater than some of his confetriporaries 5 as well in England a $ on the continent , were wHfing to allow / ' But he afterwards
observes , we are still in w&nt of an edition of the Hebrew Bible , conducted on the plan of Griesbach's Greek Testament .
Kenriicoft ' s brought us hardly so far in the criticism of the former as Mill's edition in the criticism of the latter . ' * ' Doederleins atttl Meisner ^ s , published , in 1793 y it Leipzig , is not overlooked : we h « , ve reason to fear that the
fafritness of its typography is ah obstacle to its general circulation . The twelfth lecture which , however , from the nature of it , was not delivered * , is employed in an enumeration of the authors who
have best explained the several departments of Hebrew criticism . Herewecannot fail to perceive that Dr . Marsh ' s acquaintance with the theological literature of the
continent , enables him to execute this part of his undertaking with more than common advantage . But it will not be expected from us to transcribe a list of names
and dates and works * We shall content ourselves with noticing some few articles , in which our readers , we conceive , will be particularly interested . For an intimate knowledge of the nature of Hebrew MSS . in
general , we are directed to Tychsen ' s Tent amen de variis codicumy
* £ cc the Preface , note .
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Review . —Marsh ' s Course of Lectures . —Part It . 297
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/41/
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