by Rev. C. Neil, M.A., Incumbent of St. Matthias', Poplar.
[Obtainable from Unwins, Ludgate. Price 6d.]
This remarkably condensed card is commended to students of the O. T. who have here before them in a clear, compact, form, that which is often a confused mass of facts. They may thus save the need of recourse to Bible Dictionaries and other helps, alas! frequently tinctured by rationalism if not worse. The chronology is that which is ordinarily received, and forms a central column, followed by the kings of Judah and the length of their reigns on the left, and on the right by a corresponding one of the kings of Israel, each having (as its wing) outlying columns, which give respectively their periods and lines of policy with marg. Scr. references and names of contemporary Prophets. On the obverse are an Index of accentuated names, Tables, and an abstract of the lives of Elijah and Elisha, very useful, among other classes, for Sunday scholars, public or private, and their teachers.
The author might in a new edition print Ezekiel in small capitals, as well as give emphasis to the revival in Josiah's time, which was notable, though it was as little durable as its predecessors. In the kings of Babylon, he ought also to indent Belshazzar, who was only adjunct to his father Nabonadius, or second ruler, in the kingdom. Cf. Dan. vi. 7,16,29. Smerdis M. (=Artaxerxes, Ezra 4:7, 23) ought to have followed Cambyses (=Ahasuerus, Ezra 4:6). Is it to the author or the printer we owe z for the usual x in the final syllable of Xerxes and Artaxerxes?