Jahn's Biblical Archaeology

JUL 191899

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by GOULD & NEWMAN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

342 J25are 1866

PREFACE

TO THE SECOND EDITION.

THIS Translation, of which a second edition is now offered to the public, was undertaken at the suggestion and desire of PROFESSOR STUART of the Theological Seminary at Andover; and was first published at that place in February of 1823. For the encouragement and aid, which PROFESSOR STUART afforded him in this undertaking, and for the assistance, which he received in various ways from other gentlemen of the Theological Seminary, with which the Translator was at that time connected as an assistant instructor, he embraces this opportunity to repeat his grateful acknowledgments.

The author of the original work is Dr. JOHN JAHN, who was formerly Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Vienna. It was first written in the German Language, and extended through five octavo volumes. Being of such extent, and accompanied with numerous plates, it was found too expensive for common use, and after numerous solicitations to that effect, was abridged by the author himself, translated into Latin, and printed in a single octavo volume. The Translation into English, which is now presented to the public, is made from the second edition of the Latin Abridgment, printed at Vienna in 1814.

The Translator, in fulfilling his task, has constantly had before him the original German Edition, and it is proper for him to remark, that where he noticed an observation in the German which seemed to be important, and which promised to instruct and interest the English reader, but which, nevertheless, was not in the Latin, he has ventured in a considerable number of in

stances, to translate and insert it. In doing this, he has con-
siderably increased the labor and responsibility, which devolved
upon him, but it is believed the work has thereby been rendered
more valuable. It is hardly necessary to remark that, in order
to learn the additions and alterations, and the grounds on which
they have been made, it will be found important to compare the
translation with the German, as well as with the Latin.

The NOTES, which have been occasionally inserted, and the
EXTRACTS, which, in order to render some articles more complete
than they otherwise would have been, it has been thought proper
to insert, are distinguished from the text of JAHN, by being en-
closed with brackets. Many errors in the references have been
corrected; and in the present edition the reader will find a full
and valuable INDEX of the passages referred to.

For this Index the translator here acknowledges his obliga-

tions to the interest taken in this work by Mr. SMITH TRAVERS

of the city of Washington. It was made out with much care

and labor by Mr. TRAVERS soon after the publication of the first

edition, and is now with pleasure presented to the reader with

only a few alterations from his copy. Other minor improve-

ments will be found in this edition; and it is confidently hoped

that the work will be found in all respects a valuable assistant to

the biblical student in acquiring a knowledge of the Holy Scrip-

tures.

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.

November 30, 1837.