Even this belated adoption of the title Son of Man is more than Brandt is willing to admit, and he holds it to be improbable that Jesus used the expression at all. It would be more natural, he thinks, to suppose that the Evangelist Mark introduced this self‐designation, as he introduced so much else, into the Gospel on the ground of the figurative apocalyptic discourses in the Gospel. Just when ingenuity appeared to have exhausted itself in attempts to solve the most difficult of the problems raised by the eschatological school, the historical discussion suddenly seemed about to be rendered objectless. Philology entered a _caveat_. In 1896 appeared Lietzmann’s essay upon “The Son of Man,” which consisted of an investigation of the linguistic basis of the enigmatic self‐designation. XVII. QUESTIONS REGARDING THE ARAMAIC LANGUAGE, RABBINIC PARALLELS, AND BUDDHISTIC INFLUENCE _Arnold Meyer._ Jesu Muttersprache. (The Mother Tongue of Jesus.) Leipzig, 1896. 166 pp. _Hans Lietzmann._ Der Menschensohn. Ein Beitrag zur neutestamentlichen Theologie. (The Son of Man. A Contribution to New Testament Theology.) Freiburg, 1896. 95 pp. _J. Wellhausen._ Israelitische und jüdische Geschichte. (History of Israel and the Jews.) 3rd ed., 1897; 4th ed., 1901. 394 pp. _Gustaf Dalman._ Grammatik des jüdisch‐palästinensischen Aramäisch. (Grammar of Jewish‐Palestinian Aramaic.) Leipzig, 1894. Die Worte Jesu. Mit Berücksichtigung des nachkanonischen jüdischen Schrifttums und der aramäischen Sprache. (The Sayings of Jesus considered in connexion with the post‐canonical Jewish writings and the Aramaic Language.) I. Introduction and certain leading conceptions: with an appendix on Messianic texts. Leipzig, 1898. 309 pp. _A. Wünsche._ Neue Beiträge zur Erläuterung der Evangelien aus Talmud und Midrasch. (New Contributions to the Explanation of the Gospels, from Talmud and Midrash.) Göttingen, 1878. 566 pp. _Ferdinand Weber._ System der altsynagogalen palästinensischen Theologie. (System of Theology of the Ancient Palestinian Synagogue.) Leipzig, 1880. 399 pp. 2nd ed., 1897. _Rudolf Seydel._ Das Evangelium Jesu in seinen Verhältnissen zur Buddha‐Sage und Buddha‐Lehre. (The Gospel of Jesus in its relations to the Buddha‐Legend and the Teaching of Buddha.) Leipzig, 1882. 337 pp. Die Buddha‐Legende und das Leben Jesu nach den Evangelien. Erneute Prüfung ihres gegenseitigen Verhältnisses. (The Buddha‐Legend and the Life of Jesus in the Gospels. A New Examination of their Mutual Relations.) 2nd ed., 1897. 129 pp.