CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Expositor. Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll. Fifth Series, Vol. IV. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The first paper in this volume is a description, with commentary, of the Hebrew fragment of Ecclesiasticus recently discovered. This is con- tributed by Mr. S. Schechter. We must wait for a full discussion of this remarkable fragment, but it is not premature to say that it is of the greatest importance in relation to the criticism of the Hebrew Scriptures. If it is, as seems unquestionable, a part of the Hebrew original, and so of the date of 200 B.C. (circa), we get a specimen of the Hebrew of that time, and with it the means of testing the theory which attributes so much of the Psalter and other books to the Maccabean period. There is at least a probability that the destrnctives have been going a great deal too fast. "Paul's Attitude towards Peter and James" is the subject of a controversy between Professors Sanday and W. M. Ramsay. The latter writer has an interesting note on" Cornelius and the Italic Cohort." The argument is marked by his usual freedom, but it tends to establish the accuracy of the historian's language. Dr. W. Wright has three papers on points of Palestinian geography ; there are three by Professor A. B. Bruce on "Jesus Mirrored in Matthew, Mark, and Luke;" and three posthumous essays by Dr. R. W. Dale.
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