such splendid pioneer work within three or four years. Deissmann’s Bibelstudien appeared in 1895, his Neue Bibelstudien1 in 1897. It is needless to describe how these lexical researches in the papyri and the later inscriptions proved that hundreds of words, hitherto assumed to be “Biblical,”—technical words, as it were, called into existence or minted afresh by the language of Jewish religion,—were in reality normal first-century spoken Greek, excluded from literature by the nice canons of Atticising