I am engaged in preparing the Old Testament on the same plan, but with
some alterations and additions, as the _Chronological New Testament_
described in Vol. iv., p. 357.
I write to ask if any of your correspondents can aid me in my
undertaking in the following points:
I. To inform me where I can procure, by purchase, or by loan for a few
weeks, Torshell's tract or book, in which he proposed to Charles I. to
undertake such a work.
II. To make a re-division, according to the subject-matter, of Job,
Ecclesiastes, and the greater and the minor prophets.
III. To draw up a brief analysis of this subject-matter, similar to what
is attempted in the New Testament for the Epistles.
IV. To extract from the Mishneh, &c., the _really_ valuable comments of
the rabbis.
V. To make up the chronology into the following four great unequal
divisions, assigning the particular years to each transaction falling
under these divisions; viz., (a) Adam to Abraham, (b) Abraham to David;
(c) David to the transportation of Judah to Babylon; (d) Transportation
to Babylon to Christ.
VI. To collate all these _important_ variations of the Septuagint and of
the Samaritan Pentateuch.
VII. Critically to examine the introductions, marginal quotations, and
the analyses, as given in the _Chronological New Testament_.
I shall with pleasure present any gentleman who will help me in any one
of these particulars with a copy of the New Testament at once, if he
will signify his wish for one, in a line addressed to me, care of the
Publisher, Mr. Blackader, 13. Paternoster Row.