Description: 1856. Contents: The Hebrew Commonwealth; Closing Scenes of the Jewish War of Independence; The Dispersed of Israel; Political and Religious State of the Jews after the Destruction of Jerusalem; Internal History of the Synagogue, from the return of the Captives to the Destruction of Jerusalem; History of the Synagogue, from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Jewish War of Liberation; The last Jewish War under Bar Cochab; State of the Synagogue after the last Jewish War; Social Condition of Palestine; Progress of Arts and Sciences among the Hebrews; Theological Science and Religious Belief in Palestine; The Patriarchate under the last Pagan Emperors; and Extinction of the Patriarchate, and Final Dispersion of the Jews.