Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History, Prophecy and the Monuments, Vol. 1
The first edition of this work having been exhausted at such an unexpectedly early date, I have had no opportunity to make any serious revision of the contents, and therefore confine my self for the present to the few verbal corrections that have been found necessary. For these I am chie?y indebted to a careful review of the volume in the Boston Commonwealth.
A word of remark seems called for, in addition to what was said in the preface to the first edition, with regard to the place given in the work to the subject of Egyptian history. The statement there made has been somewhat misunderstood. It is not my purpose to ignore this subject, which is in fact pre sented in the book in large outlines wherever it has any bearing upon the fortunes of Western Asia. Much less are the points of historical contact between Egypt and Palestine left out of view, since these are made an essential feature of the whole treatment. I intended merely to say that the affairs of Egypt generally, as compared with those of Babylonia and Assyria, are of greatly subordinate interest and importance for the main motive of setting forth the parts played respectively by the nations in the making and unmaking of Israel.
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