HEWIT, NATHANIEL AUGUSTUS (name in
religion, Augustine Francis): Roman Catholic; b.
at Fairfield, Conn., Nov. 27, 1820; d. in New
York City July 3, 1897. He was graduated from
Amherst (B.A.,
1839) and from the Theological
Institute of Connecticut, Windsor (1842). In the
same year he was ordained to the Congregational
ministry, within the year became a Protestant Episcopalian and was ordered deacon, but in 1846 he
became a convert to the Roman Catholic faith. He
was ordained to the priesthood in 1847, and for two
years was vice-principal of the Cathedral Collegiate
Institute, Charleston, S. C. From 1850, when
he
entered the Redemptorist Order, until 1858 he was
a missioner, and in the latter year was dispensed
from his vows to enable him to enter the newly
established Congregation of St. Paul the Apostle.
In 1865 he was appointed professor of philosophy,
theology, and Holy Scripture in the Paulist Seminary, New York City. Besides editing the
Catholic
World
from 1869 to 1874, he wrote
Reasons for
Submitting to the.Catholic Church
(Charleston, S. C.,
1846);
Life of
Princess Borgheae
(New York, 1856);
Life of
Dumoulin-Boris
(1857);
Life of
Rev.
Francis
A. Baker
(1865);
Problems of
the Age, with Studies
in St. Augustine on Kindred Topics
(1868);
Light
in Darkness: A Treatise on the Obscure Night of
the Soul
(1871); and
The
King's Highway: or, The
Catholic Church the Only Way of
Salutation as re
vealed in the Scriptures
(1874). He also translated
A. Breseiani's
Life of the Egyptian
Aloyadus: or,
the Little Angel of the Copra
(New York, 1865).
HEXATEUCH.
- Names (§ 1).
- Contents (§ 2).
- External Testimony to the Authorship (§ 3).
- Internal Testimony (§ 4).
- Early Theories of Composition (§ 5).
- Development of the Documentary Hypothesis (§ 6).
- Analysis Illustrated and Justified (§ 7).
- Modern Conservative Writers (§ 8).
- General Positions of Advanced Criticism (§ 9).
- Position of König, Dillmann, Wellhausen, A. Kuenen (§ 10).
- Klostermann's Recent Work (§ 11).
- Limitations of Literary Analysis (§ 12)
- The Constitution and the Statutes (§ 13)
- The Tabernacle (§ 14).
- The Manual for the Priests (§ 15).
- Legislation not in the Law Books (§ 16).
- The Legislation and Specific Needs (§ 17).
- Deuteronomy (§ 18).
- Legislation and the Age (§ 19).
- Literature on §§ 12-19 (§ 20).
[The symbols J, E, JE, PD, used in this article,
represent writers or schools of writers who, according to the
critical hypothesis, produced the documents from which
the Hexateuch was compiled.
Thus J represents a document
referred to the ninth century B.C.; E, one referred to
the eighth century; JE to their union in one strand in the
early part of the seventh century; D, to the product of
a
school working in the last half of the seventh and later,
producing Deuteronomy and several of
the historical books;
P, a series of documents partly narrative, partly legal, assigned
to the fifth and
fourth centuries. For fuller explanation see
Hebrew Language and Literature, II., § 5.]
