AN HISTORICAL CONNECTION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. COMPRISING THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS AND NEIGHBOURING NATIONS, BY HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX, D.D., DEAN OF NORWICH. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF THE RABBINIC AUTHORITIES, BY THE REV. A. M'CAUL, D.D. CANON OF ST. PAUL'S, AND PROFESSOR OF HEBREW AT KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. NEW EDITION, REVISED, WITH NOTES, ANALYSES, AND INTRODUCTORY REVIEW, " BY J. TALBOYS WHEELER, AUTHOR OF THE ANALYSES AND SUMMARIES OF OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY," " IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. I. LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG AND CO., 85, QUEEN STREET, CHEAPSIDE. MDCCCLVIII. 110.0.34. INTRODUCTORY REVIEW OF PRIDEAUX'S CONNECTION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. COMPRISING AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE SIX CENTURIES IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE CHRISTIAN ERA. BY J. TALBOYS WHEELER. THE present work forms the first portion of a new edition of those three celebrated Connections of Sacred and Profane History, by Prideaux, Shuckford, and Russell, which combine the several annals of mankind from the creation of the world to the advent of the Redeemer. In the years 1715 and 1718, the learned Dean Prideaux first published the present Connection. His object was to bridge over the great chasm between the Old Testament and the New, by combining in one continuous narrative the history of the Jews and other nations of the ancient world, as contained in the works of Josephus and the Rabbinical writers on the one side, and in those of the multitude of Greek and Roman historians on the other. All this he achieved, and at the same time illustrated the whole by exhibiting throughout his book the results of a profound Biblical and philological knowledge, and such a critical acquaintance with geography and antiquarian lore as belonged to his age. This design Dr. Shuckford endeavoured to extend and complete, by connecting the sacred and profane histories of the whole preceding period, namely, from the creation of the world down to the captivities of Israel and Judah, which form the opening events in the Connection of Prideaux. Accordingly, in 1727, he published his first volume, and in 1736 he published his third; but the latter brings down the connected history only |