To him is due all the honour of the work, coupled, it is true, with the responsibility for the theories therein advanced. Eisler, finally, 1 would offer my hearty thanks for the trouble he has taken in going over both MS. Any one working, as I have been for years, under intolerable library conditions will grasp the true meaning of this appreciation. I am equally obliged to the library authorities both of the Biblioth6que Nationale and the University of Paris, who have readily and generously granted me access to their treasures. John Thackeray's new edition of the Jewish War (in the ' Loeb Classical Library and from the same author's rough draft of a transla- I), tion into English of a large portion of the second volume of Dr. It gives me pleasure, in concluding, to acknowledge the quite considerable assistance I derived from the late Dr. Eisler's lecture course at the S~rbonneand of asking and receiving his counsel in places where the intricacy of his German constructions, or some note filled with more Hebrew lore than I could muster, seemed to require it, the translation advanced rapidly and was completed before the beginning of July. As I had the double advantage of following Dr. The task itself was suggested to me by the author in the winter of 1928-9,which I had the pleasure of spending in Paris. This is the explanation of this transla- tion and at the same time its excuse. A complete departure, in more ways than one, from the customary treatises on this ex- tremely important and fascinating subject, it should interest wider circles of an English-speaking public than could easily read Dr. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE HE book which is now presented for the first time in T English dress is the outcome of six years' unceasing labour on the part of the author. LINCOLN MACVEAGH T H E DIAL PRESS NEW YORK MCMXXXI
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