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The author’s gratitude is due to the below-mentioned scholars for their painstaking examination and criticism of the various chapters of this book dealing with their own fields of specialized research:
Professor F. J, Foakes Jackson, author of A History of the Christian Church, Introduction to Church History, etc.
Professor Robert Ernest Hume, author of The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, The World’s Living Religions, etc.
Professor Charles P. Fagnani, author of A Primer of Hebrew, The Beginnings of History According to the Jews, etc.
Professor Joshua Bloch, Chief of the Semitics Division, New York Public Library,
The author is indebted also to Dr, Leo Mayer of the Palestine Department of Antiquities, to Dr. W, F. Albright, Director of the American School of Oriental Research, and to Dr, Herbert Danby, Canon of St . George’s Cathedral Church in Jerusalem, for much kindly assistance in the gathering of material on the history of the three religions which have shrines in Jerusalem ; to Anna W, Anspach, [ p. 8 ] of South Orange, for her careful reading of the proofs and preparation of the index; and especially to the Rev. W. H. Murray, of New York, whose unflagging interest in this book from its inception has been a source of vast encouragement and help.
L. B.