The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology [Paperback]

This 1859 publication, comprising the final issues of this short-lived academic journal, illuminates classics and theology in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge.This academic journal, an early example of the genre, edited by Cambridge contemporaries Joseph Barber Lightfoot (182889), Fenton John Anthony Hort (182892), and John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (18251910), illuminates the close relationship between theology and classics in the period. This 1859 publication contains the 18579 issues.This academic journal, an early example of the genre, edited by Cambridge contemporaries Joseph Barber Lightfoot (182889), Fenton John Anthony Hort (182892), and John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (18251910), illuminates the close relationship between theology and classics in the period. This 1859 publication contains the 18579 issues.Contemporaries as Cambridge undergraduates in the late 1840s, Joseph Barber Lightfoot (182889), Fenton John Anthony Hort (182892), and John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (18251910) all went on to distinguished careers. Mayor, a classical scholar, became President of St John's, while Lightfoot and Hort  members, along with Brooke Foss Westcott (18251901) of the 'Cambridge triumvirate'  were eventually appointed respectively Bishop of Durham and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. This short-lived triannual journal, which they founded and edited from 1854 to 1859, is interesting both for its combination of classical and patristic material, illuminating the close relationship between theology and classics in the period, and as an example from the early history of academic journals, an emerging genre which would develop into its current form over the following decades. Volume 4, published in 1859, contains the 18579 issues.Part X: 1. Latin-English and English-Latin lexicography; 2. Multiformity of English words; 3. 'They that are of Caesar's household'; Adversaria; Notices of new books; Content of foreign journals; List of new books; Announcel'