"Aḥiyyah Shiloni ha-Ḥozeh" is directed against the work of the English missionary Alexander McCaul entitled "The Paths of the World" (London, 1839), and constitutes an introduction to Levinsohn's larger work "Zerubbabel," completed in 1853.This latter work was published, in part, by his nephew David Baer Nathansohn (Leipzig, 1863); the entire work was published later in Warsaw (1876).