NEW ARRANGEMENT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
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.
THE EDITOR OF THE "CHRONOLOGICAL NEW TESTAMENT."
Trinity Square, Southwark.