Pieces Of Eight by John Drake
The following course of Sermons originated in my having been appointed to preach the annual discourse upon the Jewish Interpretation of Prophecy in 1858; and shortly afterwards as Select Preacher I continued the subject, only with a wider application, so as to include German as Yell as Jewish neology. In preparing them for the press the first sermon necessarily has been recast, the matter in the opening part now forming the Introduction, while to complete the subject I have appended Sermon I., which was never delivered. I have also restored several passages omitted for fear of too great length, and for the sake of clearness have put straightforward names instead of the periphrases usual in the pulpit. Any one acquainted with German literature will see how greatly I am indebted to Drechsler, Havernick, Hengstenberg, Reinke, Ri.ickert, Stier, and others, not to mention the chief neologian commentators, Gesenius, Hitzig, and Knobel, and names so well known to every student of Hebrew as Ewald and E. Meier. I have also read with great advantage Dr. Alexander's Commentary, and the translation and learned notes of Dr. Henderson.
Drake, John: - John Drake is originally from Liverpool, England but is now an adopted Dubliner. He specializes in the criminally under-represented genre of satirical historical fiction and wrote his first 'serious' line of writing at the grand old age of forty. He is the author of both Making Man - a comedy centred around a Neanderthal with itchy feet and the mind of an engineer - and Cheating Death - another comedy set during the famously jovial Black Death of 14th century Europe. He can usually be found sandwiched somewhere in between a good pun and a thesaurus.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780750532839 |
| ISBN 10 | 0750532831 |
| Title | Pieces Of Eight |
| Author | John Drake |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Magna Large Print Books |
| Year published | 2010-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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