A Criticism of Systems of Hebrew Metre

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Excerpt from A Criticism of Systems of Hebrew Metre: An Elementary Treatise The time required to read the books worth reading so greatly exceeds the reading-time in any man's life, that each new book is properly challenged to show its importance and its freshness. It will not be denied that a system of Hebrew metre is important if true, for at the present moment, the whole field of Hebrew literature is in unstable equilibrium, to nothing fixed but love of change. There are many who assert and many who deny the value of metrical analysis as an aid in critical investigation of the original text, of the former class, there are various schools to be considered, each finding plausible reasons in favour of its position against all the others. The sublime confidence of the typical Metriker in his own statements of fact, which contradict his neighbour's statements regarding the same passage and even the same verse, is quite explicable when one remembers Legree's dictum in Uncle Tom's Cabin, 'I do the weighing.' Surely here, if anywhere, there is a call for level-headed judgement, that is, criticism, not necessarily condemnation, but the separation of the chaff from the wheat, and the judicial deciding among the doctors who disagree. If Englishmen and Americans have been somewhat backward in propounding theories, they may come forward with better grace in the role of Daniel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.