The Chronology of the Bible. By Samuel Sharpe. (J. Russell
Smith.) —Mr. Sharpe is so eminent as a Biblical scholar, that we are bound to give our best attention to what he advances. He gives us in this volume a. chronology of the reigns of the Hebrew Kings and of the life of Christ. The latter of the two subjects is, of course, the more interesting. Mr. Sharpe adopts that view which limits the duration of our Lord's ministry to nineteen months. He considers this to be sufficiently settled by the- authority of Clement of Alexandria and other early writers who speak of the Crucifixion as having happened in the sixteenth year of Tiberius (the. Baptism we know from Luke iii. 1 to have occurred in the fifteenth). His labour is chiefly devoted to showing when the year of the Emperor must be supposed to have begun. On this point he exhibits characteristic- learning and ingenuity.
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