Originally published in 1890. Contents Include - Hebrew Writing, Earlier and Later - Some Peculiarities of Hebrew Writing - What is Biblical Criticism - A View of the Old Manuscripts - The Early Ages - The Story of the Mnuscrips - The M en of the Great Synagoggue - The Talmud Period - The Days of the Massoretes - The Pentatuech of the Samaritians - The Talmud and the Targums - The Talmud - The Bible of ""The Seventy."" - A Bundle of Greek Bibles - The Syriac Bible - The ""Vulgate"" Of St .Jerome - Critics at Work - Specimens of Critical Work - A Further Use of the Ancient Bibles