 Just prior to the founding of the "Analytical Review", two periodicals with similar aims had collapsed.The first was the "Theological Repository" (1770–73; 1784–88), whose driving force was Dissenting theologian, clergyman, and scientist Joseph Priestley.Its articles were intended to be rigorously analytical and attempted to "settl[e] the [Biblical] text by a comparison of various readings; by accurate translation, division, and punctuation; by a concise, well-digested commentary; by notes philosophical and explanatory; and finally by adding doctrinal and moral conclusions".