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Bibliotheca Sacra · Part IV

Article LXXIV. Treatises and Dissertations upon the twelve small Prophets.

Joan. Steuber de conjugio Hoseæ cum meretrice, in Thes. Theol. and separately at Marpurg, in 1625, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, born at Lisperg, Hebrew Professor at Giessen; and died in 1643. or 1642, as Du Pin says.

Abr. F. Calovii de Arbelæ destructione Dissertatio, Ose. 10. 14. It is printed with that which he made on Jeremiah.

Joan. Helvic. Villemer in Ose. 11. 7. Populus meus gaudebit ad reditum meum, &c. printed at Wittemberg, 1680, in 4to. and in the Philological Dissertations.

Herman Christopher Engelcle has explain’d ver. 9. of chap. 13. under this Title, Lux in tenebris oriens; which was printed at Rostock, in 1709, in 4to.

Herman Vonder Hardt, de Sipphara Babyloniæ; wherein he illustrates the second Verse of Obadiah. His Dissertation was printed at Helmstadt, in the Year 1708, in 8vo.

Sigismund Pfeiffer wrote a Dissertation to prove that the Fish which swallowed up Jonah, was a Whale; printed at Lubeck, 1692, in 4to. This is all that he has written; and the only time we shall speak of him. He was a German Lutheran, and different from two others of the same Name.

John Brunsman wrote a like Dissertation; printed at Jena, in 1680, in 8vo. In the Article of Beasts spoken of in Scripture, we mention another Author, who follows a contrary Opinion.

See likewise St. Austin’s 102d Letter of the new Edition, p. 284, &c. Quæst. 6.

John George Abicht made a Disputation on Jonah’s Flight; printed at Lipsick, 1702, in 8vo. We have spoken of him. See his Title.

Martini Lipenii Jonæ navigatio, Jon. 1. 17. Thes. Theol. Philol. His Disputation is intitled, Diaplus Thalassus; ibid. and at Wittemberg, 1658. To this he has joined three other Disputations, printed separately ibid. 1667, in 4to. and in the same Thesaurus, tom. 1. We have spoken of him. See his Title in the Index.

Christ. Weidling. de Kikajon, palmâ Christi, seu hederâ, ibid. and separately at Lipsick, in 1684, in 4to. He was a German, a Lutheran, and a Doctor of Law.

See likewise Bochart, tom. 2. nov. Edit. Lugd. Batav. p. 919. de Kikajon, Jon. 4. 6.

Abbot Garapholo wrote a Dissertation on Jonah. See his Title in the Index. And St. Augustin, Epist. 71. n. 5. & Ep. 75. n. 22. nov. Edit.

See our Dissertation on the Fish which swallowed up Jonah; and that on the Idolatry of the Israelites in the Wilderness, Amos 5. 26. in our Comment on the small Prophets; and the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 2. p. 95.Daniel Pfeiffenger made two Disserta- tions upon Haggai. See upon the Epistle to Titus.

Joan. Frischmuth de gloria Templi secundi, Hag. 2. 7. Thes. Theol. His Dissertations upon Haggai and Zachary were both printed at Jena, 1699, in 4to. 1668, 1672, 1678, in four Volumes in 4to. the two upon Malachi, ibid. 1660, 1662, in two Volumes in 4to.

Salom. Deylingii de eodem argumento, Observ. Sacr. tom. 3. c. 20.

Michael Hieron. Boccii, Rabbinorum Templum tertium fictum, Agg. 2. 7. ibid. It was printed likewise separately at Wittemberg, in 4to. and in the second Tome of the Philological Dissertations. Joan. Hulsemanni, Vir Germen, Zach. 6. 9. ibid.

Gaspar Godfrey Mundinus wrote likewise concerning the second Temple; printed at Lipsick, 1661, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran. John Adam Scherzer made a Disputation on the same Subject; printed at Lipsick, 1665, and 1682, in 4to. as well as Augustus Varenius, at Rostock, 1646, in 4to.

Joan. Andr. Quenstedt de eodem, ibid.

Joan. Frischmuth de Messia rege Sionis, ibid.

Gotlieb Eckstein de lacu in quo non est aqua, Dissertationes duæ, ad Zach. 9. 11. His Disputation was printed at Wittemberg, in 1681, in 4to. and in the same Thesaurus, tom. 1. He was a German of Misnia, a Lutheran, and Professor of the Oriental Tongues at Stetin.

Salom. Deylingii, in Zech. 14. 4. de ascensione Christi de monte Olivarum, Obser. Sacr. tom. 3. c. 22. Joan. Frischmuth de triginta argenteis, ad Zach. 11. 12, 13. Idem de Messia confixo, Zach. 12. 10.

Gebb. Salemanni de eodem, in the first Tome of Theological and Philological Dissertations.

Joan. Frischmuth de Angelo Foederis, Malac. 3. 1.

Deylingii, in Malach. 3. 10. Obser. Sacr. tom. 3. c. 23.

Joan. Frischmuth, de Eliæ adventu, Mal. 4. 5, 6.

Deylingii in Malach. 4. 2. Qui locus Christo asseritur, Obser. Sacr. tom. 3. c. 24.

James Frederick Reimmam has treated of the Valley of Jehoshaphat, mentioned in the Prophet Joel, and shews how this Prophecy is already fulfilled; in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 6. p. 412.

John Hereig has likewise treated of it, and more at length. This was printed at Bremen, 1632. in 8vo. De appellatione, citatione, & compulsione ad Judicium in valle Josaphet; this is the Title.

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