The Philology of the Greek Bible. By Adolf Deissmann. (Hodder
and Stoughton. 3s. net.)—Professor Deissms,nn gives us here some lectures delivered last rear at Cambridge, and subsequently published in the Expositor. (They have been translated by a Heidelberg colleague, Mr. L. R. M. Strachan.) Professor Deissmann treats of the relation between the Septuagint and the New Testa- ment. The historical Jesus of Nazareth takes his stand firmly on the non-Greek Old Testament. But Paul is not comprehensible without the Septuagint." Further, he discusses the " Semiticism" of the Greek Bible,—what it is, and what it is not. He describes the character of the Greek, a subject on which the papyrus discoveries of recent years have thrown such a flood of light. And he gives a critical bibliography which should be of the greatest use to the student. It is satisfactory to observe that English scholars here, in this province at least, done their :full share of the work. One notable achievement of which Professor
Deissmann speaks in the warmest praise is the "Concordance to the Septuagint," by E. Hatch and H. A. Redpath, a work of great learning, on which time and labour have been most generously spent.
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