If in the term Biblical Archxology we also in clude Ecclesiastical or Christian Archatology, we shall have to add to the sources of information already mentioned, the writings of the fathers, and the innumerable commentaries upon them, as well as such works as Baumgarten, Archeol. Compend., 1766; Baronius, Annales Ecclesiast., Bing ham's Origins Ecclesiast.; Augusti, Handbuch d. Christ/. Archdologie ; Cave's Primitive Christi anity; and many others.
Numerous complete manuals of Hebrew antiqui ties have been compiled, and a thorough knowledge of them, so far as it is attainable, may now be easily acquired. Of these treatises, we may mention Goodwin's Moses and Aaron, 1614, on which have been founded the treatises of Witsius and Hottin ger, Dr. Jenning's yezvish Antiquities, and the Apparatus Criticus of Carpzov. The latter will be found an unusually rich storehouse of learning and research. In Latin we have Iken's Antiq. Hebr., 173o; Waehner's A artiy. Hebr., 5743 (a somewhat meagre treatise) ; Reland's Antiq. Hebr. (short, but most valuable); and Pareau, Antiq. Heb. : in German, He Wette's Lehrbzich der Hebr. Archdol., 3d edition ; Scholz, Handbuch a'. Bibl. Archdol. ; Rosenmiiller's Alter thumskunde ; Zel ler's Biblisch. Wirterbzich ; and Winer's invaluable Real-worterbuch. This last is an almost perfect encyclopaedia of biblical knowledge, which those can best value who have used it most. In Eng.
lisp, till quite recently, we have (with the ex ception of Goodwin) little of any value. We may, however, mention Taylor's Calmet (a hetero geneous book, containing much that is useful, mixed up with more that is fantastic or doubt ful), and Upham's abridged translation of Jahn's very painstaking Archaologie. The chief fault in Dr. Jahn's book is the absence of reference to other works, and the inferences from Scripture passages, which often rest on very slender grounds.
England has, however, contributed to this great subject such noble works as Selden's Syntagma De Dis Syriis, and Spencer's De legihus Hebr. rituali bus. An exhaustive treatment of almost every in teresting question connected with the Bible will be found in the monographs contained in the Critici Sacri (of which the substance is given in Poole's Synopsis), and in the thirty-four folio volumes of Ugolini's Thesaurus.
Special parts of the subject are handled in books of such vast learning, that we must subjoin a few of the principal ones, without attempting anything more than a reference to the countless monographs which are yearly produced by German* industry. Such are on the Natural History of the Bible, Bochart's Hicrozoicon, a book of stupendous re search; Rosenmiiller on the Botany and Miner alogy of the Bible (Clark's Theo'. Library) ; Celsius's Hierohotanicozz; and Scheuchzer's Phy sics Sacra. On the Private Life of the Hebrews, Scacchius's Myrothecizinz ; Selden's Uscor Ilebraica ; and Schroder, De Vestitu Mickey. Hebr. On the Sacred Rites. Buxtorf, De Synagoga; Vitringa, De Synag. Vett.; and Braunius, De Vestitu Sacera'otis. And on their Arts and Sciences, Budceus's Plailosophie Ebraorunt; Lowth and Michaelis, De Sacra Peal ; Glassius' Philologia Sacra; Ewald Poet. Bficher a'. A. T.; Bartholinus, De Morbis Biblici s ; Michaelis, Hiztor. Vitri ap. Hebr.; Horst, Zauher. Bibliothek; and De Saulcy, Hist. de l'Art Our knowledge of all subjects connected with Biblical Archaeology has for some time been in creasing in consequence of the great interest which the study excites, and of the additional information which recent discoveries have thrown open to us. A good and accurate manual in English, founded on the best authorities, would be very useful to thousands who have not the leisure or opportunity for extended inquiries.—F. W. F.