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Show JTEW OHUSTCAIf BCHIPTTJBXS? There as pnt forth rocentlr from the Cambridge Univereitv Press a work ia two volumes which may embody em-body one of the moat remarkable cor rohoration of biblical history that have ever been made. The author I Dr. Kcheehter, president of the Jewish Theological seminary ia New York City, and ho discovered th document I which' has now been mad public, in th Oenisah, or manuscript storeroom of th synagogue at Cairo) and if the opinion of one authority may- be accepted ac-cepted wa have in this fragment record of the activities of the early Christians which antedates the Gospels This document has reference, tn a ect of Jews who. if they accepted vhriat, had eo little eoneeptioa of the revolutionary change to be wrought by his teachings, foresaw ao little the results re-sults of Paul's activities, that the roe-ord roe-ord afford no certain clue to the personality per-sonality of any oi th religious teacher teach-er to which it allude. Profcsaor Bchechter, Indeed, puts, forth th theory the-ory tentatively that this waa a sect which broke away from the main body about th year tW) B. C, and that their document i a commentary upon th Grecian persecutions. It is Pr. Mar-rollouts Mar-rollouts of the Britiah aineeum who reads into it aa anti Patilin mrasSE and ascribe its date to th tint of the destruction of tb temple by Titu. aom forty years after the daatA or Christ, If Dr. Margolionth 'a Interpretation b correct wa hav in this document a Christian record antedating that of tha earliest of the Gospels that of Mark, whose composition ia generally believed to have occurred at about the end of the flrat century of th present era. Harper 'a Weekly. v |