_Cognation of the Jews and Lacedaemonians_ (Vol. ii., p. 377.).--I should
occupy too much space in your interesting publication were I to give a list
of the critics or ethnographers who have commented on this passage, and
shall therefore be content to mention some of the most important works
which may afford sufficient information, or at least enable your
correspondent to pursue the inquiry farther.
Calmet's _Dissertation sur la Parente des Juifs et des Lacedemoniens_,
which is included in his Dissertations, Paris, 1720, in 3 vols. 4to, and
also in his _Commentaires_.--Stillingfleet's _Origines Sacrae_, book iii.,
c. 4., who admits the probability that the Spartans had relation to
Abraham, as deriving from Phaleg, from whom Abraham came. This appears to
have been intended by the expressions of Josephus, [Greek: ex henos genous
kai ek tes pros Abramon oikeiotetos] (book xii. c. iv.); but the Versions,
and most critics, interpret the words in the 12th chap. of 1 Maccabees,
[Greek: ek genous Abraam], as implying that they came from Abraham: see
Selden, _de Synedriis_, l. ii. c. iii. s.v.--The Rev. Charles Forster's
_Historical Geography of Arabia_, part i. sect. vi., in which he discusses
"the vestiges of Arab colonies, and maintains the Arabo-Abrahamic origin of
the Greeks."--Stephanus Morinus, in _Diss. de Cognatione Lacedaemoniorum et
Hebraeorum_ (inter dissertationes viii. Dordraci, 1700, 8vo.)
Your correspondent, who, in Vol. ii., p. 230., requests to be supplied with
"a list of all the theories and publications respecting the ten tribes
commonly called the Lost Tribes," will probably be satisfied with that
furnished by Basnage's _History of the Jews_, in which, however, he
overlooks the theory of Olaus Rudbeckius, Filius, that they are to be found
neither in Asia, nor Africa, nor America, but in Lapland! The same author,
in a treatise _de Ave Selau, cujus mentio fit Numer._ xi. 31., endeavours
to establish an analogy between the Hebrew and Gothic languages.