page_title: Humphrey Prideaux
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Humphrey Prideaux / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Titlepage from a fifth edition of Humphrey Prideaux's The Old and New Testament as Connected in the History of the Jews
context_page_description: Humphrey Prideaux was an Cornish churchman and orientalist, Dean of Norwich from 1702. His sympathies inclined to Low Churchism in religion and to Whiggism in politics.
context_section_description: Among his other works were a Life of Mahomet (1697), with a polemical tract against the deists. Its scholarship depended in particular on Pococke. It was criticised by George Sale, in his notes to his translation of the  Quran.
  The Old and New Testament connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations (1715–17) was a significant work, of which many editions were brought out; it drew on James Ussher. It was among the earliest English works to use the term Vulgar Era, though Kepler used the term as early as 1635. It covered the historical interval between the Old and New Testaments, and led to a controversy between Prideaux and his cousin, Walter Moyle. Jean Le Clerc wrote a critical examination of it, which was published in English in 1722. The French translation was by Moses Solanus and Jean-Baptiste Brutel de la Rivière.
  He published the following pamphlets: The Validity of the Orders of the Church of England (1688), Letter to a Friend on the Present Convocation (1690), The Case of Clandestine Marriages stated (1691). Other works were:
  Marmora Oxoniensia, &c., Oxford, 1676, a catalogue and chronology of the Arundel marbles and related collections; the numerous typographical errors were ascribed to the carelessness of Thomas Bennet as corrector of the press. There were later editions, by Michael Maittaire and Richard Chandler.
  De Jure Pauperis et Peregrini, &c., Oxford, 1679, (edition of the Hebrew of Maimonides, with a Latin version and notes).
  A Compendious Introduction for Reading ... Histories, &c., Oxford, 1682.
  Directions to Churchwardens, &c., Norwich, 1701; 7th edition, 1730.
  The Original and Right of Tithes, &c., Norwich, 1710; reprinted 1713; 1736.
  Ecclesiastical Tracts, &c., 1716.
  His letters (1674–1722) to John Ellis were edited for the Camden Society in 1875 by Edward Maunde Thompson.
caption: The Old and New Testament connected, title page to fifth edition of 1718.
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