Bøker av Charles Hawley

This book explores the history of the Jesuit missions among the Cayugas from 1656 to 1684. It details the successes and failures of the Jesuit missions and their impact on the Cayugas. The book is a valuable resource for those interested in Native American history and the history of Christianity in America.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This work fills a lacuna in the literature devoted to Peshitta studies and Old Testament textual criticism. The author examines the works of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholarship in the field, including the works of Noeldeke, Duval, Wright and others, and proposes corrections to the Syriac text of the Book of Ezra available then.