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Of the family and condition in life of Air Of—of the period in which he lived . —Contents of the book of Amos . —His character as a poet considered . —History of the book of Amos . Obadiah . All accounts of Obadiah at tbe best uncertain . —Of the fragment extant under his name . —Of the poetical talent of Obadiah . —History of the work ascribed to him .
Jonah . Brief account of Jonah and of the period in which he lived . —Difficulties attending a correct interpretation of the book of Jonah—of various attempts made for that purpose—perhaps the most marvellous part of the story recorded in it is founded on some popular tradition—or , perhaps , the whole history is a mere poetical fable —this last idea appears to be countenanced by many modern critics . —Of the author and the character of his work . —History of the book of Jonah .
Micah . Account of Micah and of the age in which he lived . —Of the contents of his book , and of his high poetical character . —History of the book of Micah . Nahum . The precise period in which Nahum flourished , and the country in which he was born are alike uncertain—both can at the best be conjectured from various passages contained in the small book extant under his name . — -Of the contents of the book of Nahum—its character and history .
Habakkuk . The period in which Habakkuk lived is to be inferred chiefly from his own writing which we now possess . —Of the contents of his small book . —His character as a poet of the very first order . —History of the book of Habakkuk . Zephaniah .
Account of Zephaniah . —Contents of his book . —Of its character and history . Hag gat . Nothing certain known respecting the person of Haffcrai .- —Of the con-
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tents of his book . —Of its style and history . Zechariah . All that is known with any degree of certainty respecting Zechariah is , perhaps , the period in which he lived . —His book consists of two parts , the first comprising in a series of visions the eight first chapters , and the second the remainder of the book . —Remarks
on the first part *—General observations on poetical visions , with particular reference to Zechariah . —Of the second part of the book of Zechariah —though differing in point of style and contents from the first , it is in all probability the production of the same author . —Of the character of
Zechariah—and the history of his book . Malachi . Nothing certain is known respecting the person of Malachi , although the period in which he wrote is fixed with sufficient precision . —Of the contents of the book of Malachi—its general character and history .
Daniel . Little more is known of Daniel for certain than that if he was not actually descended from a royal family , he was at least of noble extraction , and further , that he lived in the third year of the reign of Cyrus . —This information
is , however , sufficient to account generally for a variety of singular and otherwise obscure passages contained in his book . —Difficulties occurringin the first part of Daniel ( ii . —vi . ) . —The
opening of the book ( 1 . 11 . 3 ) is written , in Hebrew—from chap . ii . 4 , to chap , vii . 28 , the Aramaeans-dialect prevails —and towards the conclusion the
Hebrew is again adopted . —The conjecture of the chapters iii . —vi . being interpolated does not appear sufficiently satisfactory . —Perhaps a minute investigation of the different parts of the book of Daniel may warrant the idea that it consists of a collection of
various pieces , partly referring to Daniel and partly to some of his friends—so much seems certain , that the book of Daniel is the production of two authors who wrote their proportion of it at different periods of tirae .-fpjta there once existed two original editions of the first part of Daaiel may etoily be proved by a comparison instituted between our present Chaktee text , ami
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Eiehhorn ' s Introduction to the Old Testament . 706
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/9/
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