“Mr. Hare has drawn with minute and loving detail—for his sympathy with his subject is evident on every page—a complete picture of a very interesting character. The reader wishes heartily for more of the historical background.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 740w. |
“The subject and the period of this book could not be more interesting, the treatment perhaps is a little too ambitious.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 460w. |
Harnack, Adolf. Luke the physician. (Crown theological lib., no. 21.) *$1.50. Putnam.
“In Dr. Harnack’s view, Luke as a historian is inferior to Luke as a stylist; he is uncritical, and blunders for want of exact information. But the author contends that the present trend of criticism is toward the belief that between A. D. 30 and 70 the primitive Christian tradition as a whole took the essential form it has since attained.”—Outlook.
| + | Bib. World. 30: 240. S. ’07. 30w. |
“The assertion that the language of both Gospel and Acts betrays the hand of one familiar with Greek medicine is not new, but never before has the argument received such skilful treatment.”
| + | Ind. 63: 940. O. 17, ’07. 630w. | |
| Ind. 63: 1379. D. 5, ’07. 240w. |