THE

THEOLOGY

OF THE

OLD TESTAMENT;

OR,

A BIBLICAL SKETCH OF THE RELIGIOUS

OPINIONS

OF THE

ANCIENT HEBREWS.

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF

THE CHRISTIAN ERA.

EXTRACTED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE

Theologie des alten Testaments

OF

GEORG LORENZ BAUER.

PROFESSOR OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES AND OF LOGIC AT ALTDORF; AND
AFTERWARDS OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES AND BIBLICAL

CRITICISM AT HEIDELBERG.

LONDON:

CHARLES FOX, 67, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCXXXVIII.

573,

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