THE EXPOSITOR. EDITED BY THE REV. W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A., LL.D. SIXTH SERIES, Volume II. London: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW. MCM. ROFESSOR RAMSAY ON THE INCIDENCE OF s doubtless deplorable, if true, that any English-speaking ›lar, investigating the history of the Jewish calendar, e he no abler or more experienced (pace Prof. Ramsay's erous compliments) than myself, should cherish an unural prejudice against the treatises of his mother tongue, i yield to a morbid craving for the labyrinthine mazes Germans and other foreigners. The neglect, if real, nands apology, still more if there has been misrepre itation. But for the interests of science it is more deplorable, if e, that a scholar so much abler and so much more perienced than myself as is Prof. Ramsay, should lend e weight of his great authority to the perpetuation and gravation of "a very serious error in determining the cidence of Passover" committed by several of his fellowountrymen in succession, through dependence on a single Ferman authority (Wieseler), without recourse to the real ources in the Talmud and pseudepigraphic literature, or adequate consideration for the other and weightier modern Authorities opposed to him. As the latter appears to be the real state of the case, the interests of New Testament science demand of me a reply to Prof. Ramsay's courteous exceptions to my article in the Expositor for November, 1899 (Fifth Series, No. lix.), in which I shall aim to defend the substance of all my former positions against Prof. Ramsay's chivalrous, but, I JULY, 1900. |