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name; and says that a German in reading him feels as if he was in an American
primeval forest: "Before wae could tread in his footsteps we must deny our whole
theological consciousness and sever the historical threads of our church life."' lie
is especially scandalized by Mr. B.'s telling the students that of course they "all
hope to do great things, and to preach great and brilliant sermons." I-le says a
German teacher of homiletics wxould never sax this to his students.
7ozumwaZ of Scicnit,ic Theo/g. (Z/tscri/?f J. wiss. Te7'o{. ) Edited by Dr. A.
Hillgenfeld of Jena. Seventeenth vear, I874. PARt I. I. C. Hlolsten on 2 Cor.
xi. 4-6, in relation to the so-called Chrisc's Party at Corinth, discussing the interpretations of Beyschlag, Hilgenfeld, IK1opper, etc. This article, of over fifty pages,
is devoted to showing that the recent critics havc not cleared up the difficulties of
the subject: and the writer's owvn investigations leave it perhaps still more obscure.
2. Roman Anti-Christianity at the time of Jolhn's rexvelation and of the Fifth Sybilline Book, by Repetent Hildebrand of MarbLurg —an interesting sketch and criticism.
3. Hilgenfeld on the Epistles of Ignatius and their latest defender, i. c., Theodore
Zahn who, in his "Ignatius of Antioch,' I873, advocatedl the genuineness of seven
epistles of Ignatius and of one of Polycarp-a position which Hilgenfeld vigorously
contests. 4. AV. Grimm on Hleraeclons alleged testimony to the martyrdom of the
Apostle John. 5. Ilerre. Ronsch, Xenia Theologica. Second series. PART II.
I. A. Ililgenfeld, Paulinism and the latest Examination of it, -iz.: by Otto Pfleidlerer [I873]-a thorough critical discussion-in the sense of the most advanced
school-taking Paulinismn as a tendency, and referring it back to I'aul's own experience of sin and redemption. 2. Dr. Lipsits on the MIartyrdom of P'olycarp-which
he assigns to Feb. 28, A. D. I55 or I56-the data not determining the year. 3.
Iiilgenfeld, remarks on the Muratorian Fragment — a reexamination of its bearings
on the canon of the Newx Testament. 4. W. Grimm, oln I Maccab. viii. and xv.
16-2I, after the researches of Momimsen and Ritschl-defending the trustworthiness of the treaty between the Jews and Romans, B. C. I62, as given in chapter
viii. 4. Two newly discovered (at Greifswald) tracts of Augustine, now first
printed, on the Persecutions of Saints by the W:icked, and on All the Virtues. The
tracts are given in full, but have no special value. 5. IHerder as a Theologian, by
Gust. Frank. 6. C. Egli on the Going Forth of the Trees, in Judges, chapter ix.
9. Notes on the zEthiopian Book of Baruch, by Hugo Sachse.
Tze T/,eological Quarterly (TTho/%rQgrhe Q;a otrasckhrzj?e) Roman Catholic, Tubingen, Part I., I874, opens with a valuable paper on the Syriac Hymns of Gothic
Origin, being a study on the Syriac apochryphal Acts of Thomas, by Karl Macke,
of HIildesheim, containing the results of some curious researches. Prof. Dr. Himpel examines the alleged contradictions and the different sources of the Books of
Samuel. Prof. Dr. Aberle describes wvith minute care the Last Journey of Jesus to
Jerusalem, harmonizing the various data in the four Evangelists.
Prof. Hoffman, of Kiel, has collected all the Greek documents on the Second
Council of Ephesus, A. D. 449, with Syriac translations-and a German version.
A new literary journal has been started at Jena (7citazer Literatiurzei/ung), which
promises to be quite a rival to Zarncke's Ce?raalbl(izttl, of Leipsic. It gives concise
accounts of the latest works in all departments of literature, with pertinent criticisms by competent writers. Carl Hlase, the famous church historian, R. Holsten,
W. Bender, Paul Kruger, Alfred Kirchhoff, Strhmpell, Schrader, Hildebrand, Carl
Curtius, K. Dilthey, Ernest Hzeckel, are among the contributors. Each notice is
signed by the writer. All the Faculties of the University are represented. It is