Brown leather binding with black title plate, gilt banding and lettering on the spine. Volumes 1,2, 3 & 4.

Cover title: Prideaux connection. Title pages in red and black ink. In two parts, each of which is two volumes. Includes index. Description: 4 volumes : illustrations (some folded) folded maps ; 21 cm: Responsibility: by Humphrey Prideaux. Reviews. User-contributed reviews Tags. Add tags for “The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations

Humphrey Prideaux (3 May 1648 – 1 November 1724) was a Cornish churchman and orientalist, Dean of Norwich from 1702. His sympathies inclined to Low Churchism in religion and to Whiggism in politics.

The Old and New Testament connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations (1715–17) was a significant work, of which many editions were brought out; it drew on James Ussher. It was among the earliest English works to use the term Vulgar Era, though Kepler used the term as early as 1635. It covered the historical interval between the Old and New Testaments and led to a controversy between Prideaux and his cousin, Walter Moyle. Jean Le Clerc wrote a critical examination of it, which was published in English in 1722. The French translation was by Moses Solanus and Jean-Baptiste Brutel de la Rivière.