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In a note Dr. Lightfoot adds:--
"Travellers and 'apologists' alike now more commonly identify Sychar
with the village bearing the Arabic name Askar. This fact is not
mentioned by our author. He says moreover, 'It is admitted that
there was no such place (as Sychar, [Greek: Suchar]), and apologetic
ingenuity is severely taxed to explain the difficulty.' _This is
altogether untrue_. Others besides 'apologists' point to passages in
the Talmud which speak of 'the well of Suchar (or Sochar or
Sichar);' see Neubauer, 'La Geographie du Talmud,' p. 169 f. Our
author refers in his note to an article by Delitzsch, ('_Zeitschr.
J. Luth. Theol._,' 1856, p. 240 f.) _He cannot have read the
article, for these Talmudic references are its main purport_."
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I may perhaps be allowed to refer, first, to the two sentences which
I have taken the liberty of putting in italics. If it be possible
for an apologist to apologise, an apology is surely due to the readers
of the "Contemporary Review," at least, for this style of criticism,
to which, I doubt not, they are as little accustomed as I am myself.
There is no satisfying Dr. Lightfoot. I give him references, and
he accuses me of "literary browbeating" and "subtle intimidation;"
I do not give references, and he gives me the lie.
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