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THE interest which Anglo-American Protestantism has always taken in the præ-Christian Biblical books, and in the land of Canaan, in which the events of ancient Israelitish history, traditionally described in them, took place, has again been exemplified in yet another addition to the long list of pious speculations as to the appearance of the Israelitish Tabernacle and of the Temple of Yahweh at Jerusalem. Mr. Caldecott is an enthusiast, like his forerunners, for none but an enthusiast would be bold enough to explain the meaning of doubtful cuneiform signs to cuneiform scholars, or to invite prefaces from a master of cuneiform science, Prof. Sayce, in which the ingenuous author of the book is publicly told that, however nice and interesting his discussion of the Tabernacle and the Temple may be, his cuneiform cannot be accepted.
The Tabernacle: its History and Structure.
By the Rev. W. Shaw Caldecott. Pp. xxii + 236. Second Edition. (London: Religious Tract Society, 1906.) Price 5s.
Solomon's Temple: its History and Structure.
By the Rev. W. Shaw Caldecott. Pp. xiii + 358. (London: Religious Tract Society, 1907.) Price 6s.
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The Tabernacle and the Temple . Nature 77, x (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/07700xa0
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