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Excerpt from The British Academy: The Septuagint and Jewish Worship, A Study in Origins This book contains in an expanded form, with the addition of Appendices, the three Schweich Lectures for 1920 delivered last December. I have divided into two the second Lecture, which time did not permit of being delivered in full. In doing me the honour to appoint me to the Schweich Lectureship, the British Academy kindly offered me the opportunity of putting together the results of my researches into the Septuagint. The subject which originally suggested itself to me was 'The liturgical use of the Old Testament as a factor in exegesis', a subject which has not been worked out, as it deserves to be, and one on which the LXX supplies important, though not the only, evidence. This now forms the basis of Lectures II and III, in Lecture II, while keeping the LXX mainly in view, I ventured to digress a little beyond my proper province. The first lecture on Septuagint origins was prefixed under advice. The Lectures are a combination of things new and old. The nucleus of I and II appeared in various contributions to the Journal of Theological Studies, to the editors and publishers of which I am indebted for permission to reprint portions of the Tables which stand in the Appendix. The Lectures themselves embody the results of a careful re-examination of the books concerned. Lecture III is wholly new. Here I have reluctantly retracted opinions previously expressed and I cannot claim to have said the last word on the Book of Baruch, but I hope that the main idea (the liturgical framework, strangely overlooked by the commentators) may prove to be sound. I have also to express my thanks to kind friends at Oxford, to whom I am otherwise so deeply indebted, for permitting me to make use of the materials of my Grinfield lectures delivered some years ago. 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.