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Review Of Literature.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE .
The Temple of Jerusalem . A curious manuscript has just been completed after a labour of more than twenty years , studious care and great research having been constantly applied for that period to render it perfect . It is the treatise upon that most justly celebrated of all edifices —the Temple of Jerusalem . The treatise is divided into four books , the first of which is a description of the Temple , as built by Solomon , considering even its most minute detail , the calculations being determined to parts so small as the sixth of an inch . The chief authority for the
contents of this first book has been scripture , from which all the passages , even to the least that related to this subject , have been carefully collected , and so arranged as to make a connected discourse . The house of the Forest of Lebanon , the house in which Solomon dwelt , the house he built for Pharoah ' s daughter , the Porch of Judgement , & c , are also described in this book . The second class of authority used in this part of the work has been Rabinical from the Talmudsand Targum as
prin-, cipal , and from nearly two hundred other oriental works relating to the subject , some of which were brought to the author by learned Jews , from Chaldea and Poland , from which latter place a rabbi who had been many years hi gh priest , resided for five years with the author , to read and translate these works to him . This first book ends with a cursory history of the changes this temple underwent from its foundation to the Babylonish captivity .
The second book commences from the building of the Temple under Nehemiah , and is a literal translation of the Bab ylonish Talmud , book Middoth , ( or the Measures of the Temple ) and closes with notes as to the state of the Temple until the time of Herod .
The third book is a compilation from Flavius Josepbus , Maimonides and others who wrote upon the Temple as restored and adorned by Herod , and carries us down to the time of its final destruction by Titus ; to this book is also a note on the present site of the Temple , as occupied by the Mosque of Omar . The fourth book is a minute description of the furniture and utensils of the Temple of Solomon , from the same authorities as was the first
book . The whole treatise is illustrated with more than twenty designs , so perfect that accurate models might be made from them of the size of the originals , the measures being written upon each . All prior works upon the subject have been examined , as Villanpandus , Lamy , Calmet , St . Gregory , St . Augustine , Bede , and many others . The libraries of most note , as the Vatican , the Ambrosian at Milan , the Royal Library at Paristhe British Museum & c . & chave all been searched to l
, , , suppy material for this work ; indeed , it may be truly said to be a condensation of the labours of more than three hundred authors , and certainly contains everything of authority that has ever been written upon that subject . In offering the above remarks upon a Manuscript work which has been the labour of twenty years research—in which the intelligence and anxieties of a life-time have been absorbed—we could have wished that
the talented author had found friends to insure its publication amongst that class of patrons , whose learning , authority , and wealth would have rewarded him for the intense application , by giving to the present world anil to posterity the result of his valuable labours . VOL . VI . , ,,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of Literature.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE .
The Temple of Jerusalem . A curious manuscript has just been completed after a labour of more than twenty years , studious care and great research having been constantly applied for that period to render it perfect . It is the treatise upon that most justly celebrated of all edifices —the Temple of Jerusalem . The treatise is divided into four books , the first of which is a description of the Temple , as built by Solomon , considering even its most minute detail , the calculations being determined to parts so small as the sixth of an inch . The chief authority for the
contents of this first book has been scripture , from which all the passages , even to the least that related to this subject , have been carefully collected , and so arranged as to make a connected discourse . The house of the Forest of Lebanon , the house in which Solomon dwelt , the house he built for Pharoah ' s daughter , the Porch of Judgement , & c , are also described in this book . The second class of authority used in this part of the work has been Rabinical from the Talmudsand Targum as
prin-, cipal , and from nearly two hundred other oriental works relating to the subject , some of which were brought to the author by learned Jews , from Chaldea and Poland , from which latter place a rabbi who had been many years hi gh priest , resided for five years with the author , to read and translate these works to him . This first book ends with a cursory history of the changes this temple underwent from its foundation to the Babylonish captivity .
The second book commences from the building of the Temple under Nehemiah , and is a literal translation of the Bab ylonish Talmud , book Middoth , ( or the Measures of the Temple ) and closes with notes as to the state of the Temple until the time of Herod .
The third book is a compilation from Flavius Josepbus , Maimonides and others who wrote upon the Temple as restored and adorned by Herod , and carries us down to the time of its final destruction by Titus ; to this book is also a note on the present site of the Temple , as occupied by the Mosque of Omar . The fourth book is a minute description of the furniture and utensils of the Temple of Solomon , from the same authorities as was the first
book . The whole treatise is illustrated with more than twenty designs , so perfect that accurate models might be made from them of the size of the originals , the measures being written upon each . All prior works upon the subject have been examined , as Villanpandus , Lamy , Calmet , St . Gregory , St . Augustine , Bede , and many others . The libraries of most note , as the Vatican , the Ambrosian at Milan , the Royal Library at Paristhe British Museum & c . & chave all been searched to l
, , , suppy material for this work ; indeed , it may be truly said to be a condensation of the labours of more than three hundred authors , and certainly contains everything of authority that has ever been written upon that subject . In offering the above remarks upon a Manuscript work which has been the labour of twenty years research—in which the intelligence and anxieties of a life-time have been absorbed—we could have wished that
the talented author had found friends to insure its publication amongst that class of patrons , whose learning , authority , and wealth would have rewarded him for the intense application , by giving to the present world anil to posterity the result of his valuable labours . VOL . VI . , ,,