Nicolai Abram, S. I. Chronologia Judicum, in his Pharus of the Old Testament, tom. 2. See Marsham on the same Subject.
Upon Gideon's Altar, and Jephthah's Vow.
Andr. Dan. Habichorst, Altare Gideonis, & Ephod Gideonis, Thes. Theol. Philol. tom. 1. These two Dissertations were printed at Rostock, in 1687, and 1688. two Volumes in 4to.
Joan. Georg. Bindrimii, de Altari Gideonis, Judic. 6. 23. Thes. Theol. Philol. tom. 2. p. 949. printed at Rostock, 1677, in 4to. These two Authors were both German Lutherans; one of Rostock, the other of Mecklenburg: The latter lived towards the close of the 17th Century; and the former died in 1704.
Frederic. Spanheim, de Voto Jephte, at the end of his Comment upon Job, in the way of Appendix. See Job. This was by the Son, and not the Father, who wrote only upon the New Testament. He whom we are speaking of, was a Calvinist at Leyden; and died in 1701.
Joan. Jacobi Schudt, de Voto Jephte. He did not treat of it expressly, but speaks of it in the Life only of this General, with which he has join’d Prolegomena upon the Theocracy of the Hebrews; at Frankfort, 1701, in 12mo. He was a German Lutheran of Frankfort, upon the Mein.
Julii Bartolocci, de Sacrificio Filiae Jephte, tom. 3. Bibl. Rab. p. 140.
Ludovic. Capell. Diatribe de Voto Jephte. This Dissertation is printed with his Spicilegium, or his Notes upon the New Testament, at Saumur, 1683, in 4to. the third Edition; and in the great Criticks, tom. 2. p. 2075.
See our Dissertation on the same Subject before the Book of Judges; and in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 2. p. 141.
Henry Bauman has a Disputation on the same Vow, printed at Wittemberg, 1665, in 4to. See above.
John le Blanc has a particular Examination of this Vow, in French, at Amsterdam, 1708, in 12mo. He was a Lutheran Minister at Copenhagen, about 1708, and a French Refugee.
John Conrad Danhaver made a Disputation on this Subject, printed at Strasburg, 1690, in 4to. the eighth Edition. And Lewis Charles Des Maets has fourteen, printed at Utrecht, in 4to. He was a Dutch Calvinist, and died in 1651.
Augustus Pfeiffer, in his seventh Exercitation on the Bible, treats of the same Subject; at Dresden, 1679, in 4to. We shall speak of him in another Place.
Schotan wrote a Dissertation, which was printed at Franekar, 1662, in 4to. He was a Dutch Calvinist, and Professor at Franekar.
Andrew Sennert put out a Dissertation at Wittemberg, 1650, in 4to.
Melchier Zeidler, a German Lutheran, wrote upon this Vow; printed at Koningsburg, 1673, in 4to. as well as Christopher Schrader, at Helmstadt, 1661, in 4to.
A Dissertation in French upon Jephthah’s Vow, by a protestant Author; printed at Amsterdam, 1707, in 12mo. divided into 23 Chapters. 1. The Author pretends that Jephthah did not really sacrifice his Daughter, but, by his Vow, consecrated her only to God in a state of perpetual Celibacy. 2. He answers their Reasons who are for her being sacrificed, by shewing that the Heads of Families among the Jews, had no power over the Lives either of their Children or Slaves; and that all the human Victims which the Law permitted to be sacrificed, were always looked upon as guilty of some Crime, which could not be said of Jephthah’s Daughter. 3. He endeavours to confirm his Opinion of her living in Celibacy, by explaining the Passage of Scripture which speaks of her Separation from the Commerce of the World, as meant of her Consecration to the Service of God; Jephthah divesting himself of the Right and Power he had over his Daughter, that for the future she might live only for God.
Upon Samson, and Micah's Idol.
Frideric. Mayer, de Vulpeculis Samsonis, ad Judic. 15. It was printed at Wittemberg, 1686, in 4to. and in the Thesaur. Dissert. Philol. tom. 1. With this we may join Henry Gebhard’s Disputation, printed at Gryphiswald in 1707, 4to. He was a German Lutheran of Brunswick, in 1657. who understood the Oriental Languages.
Salom. Deylingii, de Vulpibus Samsonis, Observ. Sacr. tom. 1. Item Godofredi Martini de Vulpibus Samsonis, Misc. Lips. tom. 4. Hilliger’s Dissertation at Wittemberg, 1674, in 4to. John Hoier’s, at Copenhagen, 1705, in 4to. He was a Danish Lutheran.
The Theological Theses of John Henry Schopack, at Tubinge, 1704, in 4to. another German Lutheran.
Albert Veil, de Idolo Michæ. This is in the Thess. Dissert. Philol. tom. 1. He was a German Lutheran, and lived towards the end of the 17th Century.
Jeffery Jungt wrote upon Samson’s Problem and Feast, at Bremen, 1708, in 4to. Theodore Kirmeier has also treated of the same, at Wittemberg, 1673, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran; as well as John Frischmuth, whose Treatise was printed at Jena, 1654, in 4to.
John Francis Buddæus, de Leone à Samsone lacerato, in the select Observations of Hall, tom. 11. This is the 6th. He was a German of Pomerania, and a Lutheran; was living in 1721.
John Henry Wild wrote upon the Strength and Sweetness of the Lion, at Lipsick, 1665, in 4to. as is also his de Ænigmate Samsonis. He was a German Lutheran; Professor at Esting, about 1660. Herman Christopher Engelcte has also discoursed of this Lion, at Rostock, 1708, in 4to.
Upon several other Subjects.
Joan. Christian. Ortlob, de Fonte Samsonis prope Maxillam, cap. 15. ver. 19. at Lipsick, 1703, in 4to. Christian. Robrensec, Samson absolutus, on the same chapter, ver. 15. at Wittemberg, 1681, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran; and died in 1705.
John Peter Grunemberg, his Discourse on Shamgar, on chap. 9. ver. 91. at Rostock, 1703, in 4to. He was a Lutheran Minister at Rostock; and died in 1706.
Christian Kortoldt has a Dissertation upon the Sacrifice of Jephthah’s Daughter, at Keil, 1667, in 4to.
John Michaelis has inquired into the true Meaning of the Word Selah, mentioned in the 18th chapter, at Gryphiswald, 1662, in 4to.
Daniel Moller, a Lutheran of Pomerania, and Professor of History at Altorf, has made a Disputation on the twelve Judges of the Jews, at Nuremberg, 1709, in 4to.
John Fidelman, of Danemarck, a Lutheran, has a critical Dissertation on the Jaw-bone made use of by Samson, against the Observations of Hall; at Copenhagen, 1706, in 4to.
Christopher Weisenborn has treated, in particular, of the Death of Samson, at Jena, 1700, in 4to.
Michael Christian Tieroff, in his Disquisition upon the Jewish Bonds, has spoken of Jephthah’s Vow. See upon Genesis, Article 31. at the end.
In the eighth Tome of Select Observations, printed at Hall, 1708, in 8vo. there is one upon Samson’s Foxes. As it seems hard to think how Samson could take three hundred Foxes a-hunting, and fasten Firebrands to their Tails, the Author here ventures upon a Conjecture, that Samson made use of Bundles of Straw, and not of Foxes, in setting fire to the Corn-fields of the Philistines. The Argument which is offered for this Opinion, is, that tho there be indeed very little resemblance between a Fox and a Bundle of Straw, there is a great one between the Hebrew Words, which signify both, and differ only in a Vau. It must be confessed that this Interpretation is quite new: It is from hence, therefore, that it was borrowed by the Author of a Book printed lately in Holland, and intitled, Balaam’s Ass, the Ass’s Jaw-bone, Samson’s Foxes, and Elijah’s Ravens.