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Ewald's Hebrew Grammar inaugurated a new era in biblical philology.

Subsequent works in that department were avowedly based on his, and to him will always belong the honour of having been, to quote Hitzig, " the second founder of the science of the Hebrew language.

" As an exegete and biblical Critic no less than as a grammarian he has left his abiding mark.

His Geschichte des Volkes Israel, the result of thirty years ' labour, was epoch-making in that branch of research.

While in every line it bears the marks of intense individuality, it is at the same time a product highly characteristic of the age, and even of the decade, in which it appeared.

If it is obviously the outcome of immense learning on the part of its author, it is no less manifestly the result of the speculations and researches of many laborious predecessors in all departments of history, theology and philosophy.