BY THE SAME AUTHOR. THE NEW TESTAMENT, TRANSLATED FROM THE LATEST GREEK TEXT OF TISCHENDORF. A New and thoroughly Revised Edition. Post 8vo, Cloth, Price 10s 6d. "Of high and distinctive value."-Saturday Review. "Will prove a very useful book to almost any student of the New Testament."-Athenæum. "A noble monument of wide reading and sober criticism. Dr Davidson has done the translation with fidelity, vigour, and elegance."-Watchman. "We heartily welcome the volume as a help to the more accurate study of the New Testament."-Freeman. "A welcome addition to the library. We should be glad if this book should attain a wide circulation."-Nonconformist. LONDON: G. KEGAN PAUL & CO., I PATERNOSTER SQUARE. THE CANON OF THE BIBLE: ITS FORMATION, HISTORY, AND FLUCTUATIONS. BY SAMUEL DAVIDSON, D.D. OF HALLE, AND LL.D. THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., I PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 1880. 8-16-38 PREFACE. THE substance of the present work was written towards the close of the year 1875 for the new edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica." Having been abridged and mutilated, contrary to the author's wishes, before its publication there, he resolved to print it entire. With that view it has undergone repeated revision with enlargement in different parts, and been made as complete as the limits of an essay appeared to allow. As nothing of importance has been knowingly omitted, the writer hopes it will be found a comprehensive summary of all that concerns the formation and history of the Bible canon. The place occupied by it was α |
