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The Teaching of Jesus and the Jewish Teaching of His

Age. By Thomas Walker, D.D. (George Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.) The importance of the extra-canonical Jewish literature of the period 200 B.c.—A.D. 100 is being increasingly recog- nized. Without a certain acquaintance with this literature it is impossible to " place Jesus ; with it His picture falls into its historical frame. This scholarly and illuminating treatise describes the beliefs current in this age with regard to the Idea and the Kingdom of God, the Character of the. Messiah, the Nature of Man, the Way of Salvation, and the Hope of the Hereafter, giving in all cases, section by section, the corresponding teaching of Jesus on these heads. The book should be widely read.