How to Know the Bible

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How To Know theBibleITHE MAKING OF THE BIBLETHE Bible is in everybody Vhouse, and is the most generally read and studied of all books, but it is still in need of simple explanation.This is partly because it is so old, the latest pages of it having been written at least eighteen hundred years ago; partly because it is a library rather than a book, composed by various writers, in various literary forms, in widely separated countries, and during a period of more than a thousand years; and partly be

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cause we read it in a translation which brings the sixty-six books into a single volume, presents them without separate title-pages, makes poetry look like prose, shows no distinction between conversation and description, and deprives the reader even of the benefit of paragraphs. It is an evidence of the extraordinary interest and vitality of the Bible that it has survived the process of printing it in detached and numbered sentences, arranged in double-columned pages of fine type. A bTable of Contents CONTENTS; chapter pa6e; I The Making of the Bible 1; II The Old Testament and the New Spirit 9; III What, Then, Is Inspiration? 22; IV The Pentateuchal Alphabet 32; V Songs and Stories 49; VI The Conquest of Canaan 69; VII The Two Histories 83; VIII The Prophets: The Assyrian Period 105; IX The Prophets : The Chaldean Period 127; X The Prophets: After the Exile 152; XI The Poets 168; XII The Wise Men 189; XIII Between the Testaments 213; XIV The Recollections of St Peter 223; XV The Records of St Matthew 237; XVI The Writings of St Luke 250; XVII The Earlier Epistles of St Paul 1 264; XVIII The Earlier Epistles of St Paul II 279; XIX The Later Epistles of St Paul 296; XX The Eive Sermons 309; XXI The Johannine Books 323; XXII The Library of the Grace of God 344; Index 357About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a p

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