The Edinburgh Review Volume 111-140

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... 244,245; adjurations for the dead found on their epi-taphs, ib. their religion in the time of Mahomet, cxxiv. 12; their esta-blishment in Arabia, 14; their partial recognition of Mahomet, 37, 38; their distinction by him in Arabia, ib. 41 Jews, punished by Edward I. for adulterating the coinage, cxxix. 550 note. localities assigned to, in early London,cxxxi. 173; their favoured position under the Roman Empire, 477, 478; colonies of, in commercial cities, i%. Western distinction of their law, cxxxviii. 28; tenets of their chief sects in the early Christian centuries, 45; question as to the origin of their law, 55; intellectual activity before the advent of Christ, 57; protest against idolatry, 59; hatred of Gentiles, 60; notions of divorce, 61; their history fettered by tradition, 63 Jhansie (India), annexation of, cxvii. 18 Joan of Arc. See Arc Joanna la I.oca. See Juana John (Saint, the Apostle), his Gospel attributed to Apollos, cxix. 584; the truth of his narrative denied by M. Kenan, ib.; accused of personal vanity, 585; Stronck's theory of his discrepancies, 586; Bretschneider ascribes his Gospel to the second century, 587; its authenticity asserted by Dr. Arnold, ib.; beauty of his narrative, ib.; its artificial character vindicated, 589; charged by M. Renan with inventing the scene at the Cross, 600 text on the 'three witnesses' in his Gospel, cxxii. 112, 113; the descent of the Angel (v. 4), ib.; the woman taken in adultery (vii. 53; viii. 11), ib.; mistranslation of passage (x. 16), 117 his Gospel ascribed by the Montanists toCeriuthus, cxxiv.464 his disputed authorship of the Apocalypse, cxl. 488 John, I'alaeologus (Emperor of Constantinople, d. 1448), his efforts at union with the Latin Church, cxxi. 485; his project renounced, 486 John (King of...