8vo. xii, 394 pp., [1], 19th century quarter calf, with marbled boards, marbled endpaper, speckled edges, book plate of Dampierre verso front cover, some foxing throughout, small shelf sticker at lower spine, Bei Ludwig Oehmigke, Berlin, 1831.

Synopsis

Entering the University of Bonn in 1819, Hengstenberg attended the lectures of Georg Wilhelm Freytag for Oriental languages and of Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler for church history, but his energies were principally devoted to philosophy and philology, and his earliest publication was an edition of the Arabic Mu’allaqat of Imru’ al-Qais, which gained for him a prize at his graduation in the philosophical faculty. This was followed in 1824 by a German translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Finding himself without the means to complete his theological studies n Berlin, he accepted a post at Basel as tutor in Oriental languages to Johann Jakob Stähelin (1797–1875), later a professor at the university. It was there that he began to direct his attention to a study of the Bible, which led him to a conviction, not only of the divine character of evangelical religion, but also of the unapproachable adequacy of its expression in the Augsburg Confession. This work is a dissertations on the genuineness of Daniel.