The Project Gutenberg E-text of The Bible in its Making

About this eBook

Author

Hope, Noel

Title

The Bible in its Making: The most Wonderful Book in the World

Credits

Produced by Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

BS: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: The Bible, Old and New Testament

Subject

Bible -- Authorship

Category

Text

eBook-No.

30908

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30908

Release Date

January 9, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE BIBLE IN ITS MAKING
2. 2.The most Wonderful Book in the World — BY
3. 3.MILDRED DUFF AND NOEL HOPE — COMPANION VOLUME TO ' Where Moses went to School, ' ' When Moses learnt to Rule, ' ' Esther the Queen, ' 'Daniel the Prophet,' and ' Hezekiah the King. ' — ILLUSTRATED BY NOEL HOPE — MARSHALL BROTHERS, LTD., PUBLISHERS, LONDON, EDINBURGH & NEW YORK 1912 — Uniform with this Volume PRICE ONE SHILLING Where Moses went to School Where Moses learnt to Rule Esther the Queen Daniel the Prophet Hezekiah the King All fully Illustrated MARSHALL BROTHERS, LTD., PUBLISHERS, LONDON, EDINBURGH & NEW YORK — FOREWORD
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.THE BIBLE IN ITS MAKING — CHAPTER I — A LIVING BOOK — BROKEN BITS OF CLAY BOOKS IN THE CUNEIFORM LANGUAGE, BELONGING TO THE TIME WHEN MOSES WROTE THE FIRST WORDS OF GENESIS — EGYPTIAN SCRIBES AT WORK. (A) CASES FOR HOLDING WRITING MATERIALS. NOTICE SPARE PEN PLACED BEHIND THE CLERK'S EAR — CHAPTER II — THE SECRET OF ITS GREATNESS — SCHOOLBOY'S COPY FROM ANCIENT EGYPT. NOTICE THE TEACHER'S CORRECTIONS — FIRST WORDS OF KIN MESHA'S WRITING ON THE MOABITE STONE. MOSES MOST LIKELY USED LETTERS LIKE THESE — CHAPTER III — MOSES AND HIS WRITINGS — PORTRAIT AND WRITING OF AMRAPHEL, KING OF SHINAR, IN ABRAHAM'S TIME — ANCIENT FIGURE OF ASHTAROTH, THE WICKED IDOL-GODDESS OF CANAAN — CHAPTER IV — THE HISTORY BOOKS — SENNACHERIB, KING OF ASSYRIA. FROM THE ASSYRIAN PICTURE OF THE TAKING OF LACHISH. (2 Kings xviii.) — CHAPTER V — THE SCATTERING OF THE PEOPLE — 'LED AWAY CAPTIVE.'—ASSYRIAN PICTURE OF THE INHABITANTS FROM A CONQUERED CITY BEING LED AWAY INTO SLAVERY — THE FIRST LINE OF THE BIBLE IN HEBREW — CHAPTER VI — THE ATTACK ON THE SCRIPTURES — FIG. 1.—COIN OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, WITH PORTRAIT OF HIMSELF AND FIGURE OF JUPITER, THE FALSE GOD HE WORSHIPPED FIG. 2.—COIN OF ANTIOCHUS, THE WICKED KING. PORTRAIT OF HIMSELF, AND FIGURE OF VENUS, ONE OF THE FALSE GODS HE TRIED TO FORCE THE JEWS TO BELIEVE IN — THE JEWS OF ANTIOCHUS' TIMES COVERED THEIR HOUSES AND TOMBS WITH HEATHEN GREEK ORNAMENTS THAT THEY MIGHT BE 'IN THE FASHION.' HERE IS THE CORNICE OF ONE OF THEM, DECORATED IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY AS THE GREEK IDOL-TEMPLES — CHAPTER VII — TWO FAMOUS VERSIONS OF THE SCRIPTURES — FRAGMENT OF THE 'SEPTUAGINT'—THE OLD TESTAMENT IN ANCIENT GREEK, THE FIRST WRITTEN TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE EVER MADE — THE SAMARITAN BOOK OF THE LAW AT NABLOUS — CHAPTER VIII — THE BIBLE IN THE DAYS OF JESUS CHRIST — PLAN OF A SYNAGOGUE 1. MODEL OF THE ARK WHICH WAS CARRIED BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. 2. STAND FOR THE READER. 3. WOMEN'S GALLERY. 4. ENTRANCE — CHAPTER IX — THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM — THE PRECIOUS GOLDEN CANDLESTICK, FROM THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM, CARRIED BY THE ROMAN CONQUERORS THROUGH THE STREETS OF ROME—FROM THE BROKEN ROMAN CARVING STILL TO BE SEEN IN ROME TO-DAY — MEDAL MADE BY TITUS, THE CONQUEROR OF JERUSALEM. THE WORDS, IVDAEA CAPTA, MEAN 'CAPTIVE JUDEA.' THE WOMAN WEEPING UNDER A PALM-TREE STANDS FOR THE CITY OF JERUSALEM — CHAPTER X — THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT — THESSALONICA: NOW CALLED SALONICA. IT WAS TO THE CHRISTIANS OF THIS TOWN THAT PAUL WROTE HIS FIRST EPISTLE — THE OLD ROMAN ROAD, DOWN WHICH ST. PAUL TRAVELLED INTO ROME, AS IT APPEARS TO-DAY — CHAPTER XI — HOW THE GOSPELS CAME TO BE WRITTEN — A FRAGMENT OF PAPYRUS-PAPER WITH ANCIENT WRITING — CHAPTER XII — SOME OTHER WRITERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT — VERY ANCIENT FRAGMENT OF A PAPYRUS ROLL, WITH PORTIONS OF THREE PSALMS WRITTEN IN GREEK — PART OF AN ANCIENT COPTIC TOMBSTONE—IN BRITISH MUSEUM — CHAPTER XIII — THE FIRST BIBLE PICTURES — TWO EMPTY TOMBS IN THE CATACOMBS, THE LOWER ONE SHOWING PART OF THE COVERING SLAB WITH A ROUGH CARVING OF THE MARTYRS' PALM OF VICTORY — ONE OF THE FIRST PICTURES EVER MADE OF 'CHRIST, THE GOOD SHEPHERD.' FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS, THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CEMETERY
6. 6.STORIES FOR INTELLIGENT CHILDREN — A REALLY DELIGHTFUL SERIES, Charmingly Bound and Illustrated — Price 1s. each. Cloth Boards — By MILDRED DUFF and NOEL HOPE

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