Selected Theological Library

this, although most learned men, and those most skilled in these letters, Maius and Leusden, were occupied in adorning it, it was nevertheless found to be corrupted and debased by so many errors that Maius himself judged that a third should, as it were, be substituted in its place. For under his authority, a new and far more excellent edition of the work of Clodius appeared at Frankfurt am Main in 1716, 4to. Its primary care was entrusted to the fidelity of GEORG CHRISTIAN BURCKLIN, who, in order to win new ornaments for it, collated various manuscripts and added other things which can bring much convenience to readers:

DANIEL ERNEST IABLONSKY, who made the Hebrew Bible public property at Berlin, 1699, 8vo. In adorning them and editing them accurately, he expended as much industry as could be expected from a most learned man. He prefixed a learned and copious preface and in it testified that he had followed the later edition of Leusden, or rather of Athias, of the year 1667; yet so that he not only revised it against the Venetian Bombergiana, the Royal edition, or that of Arias Montanus, the Basel edition of Buxtorf, the Hutteriana, that of Menasse, and others; but also employed manuscripts. He adds that he had discovered and removed more than two thousand errors in the said edition of Leusden; and that he entrusted the province of correcting the individual sheets four times over, especially to Levi David, or Yehuda Loew, a learned Jew. In the same preface, he encompassed the main chapters of sacred criticism and disputed about them skillfully. * Hebrew Bibles of a smaller format with a shorter preface by IABLONSKY also exist, Berlin 1712, 12mo, in the description of which his larger edition, recounted by me, provided the norm: **

EVERHARD VAN DER HOOGHT, to whom we owe an edition of the Hebrew Bible, superior in dignity to those previously produced, whether we direct our attention to its external or internal ornaments. It appeared at Amsterdam, 1705, 8vo.

• BAUMGARTEN, News of Remarkable Books, Vol. II, p. 111. REIMMANN, Catalogue of the Theological Library, p. 233.

** BAUMGARTEN, News of Remarkable Books, Vol. II, p. 202.