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Mildred Duff. The Bible in its Making: The most Wonderful Book in the World
The Bible in its Making: The most Wonderful Book in the World
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
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
STORIES FOR INTELLIGENT CHILDREN
A REALLY DELIGHTFUL SERIES, Charmingly. Bound and Illustrated
Price 1s. each. Cloth Boards. By MILDRED DUFF and NOEL HOPE
Over 30,000 already in circulation
The Campfield Press, St. Albans
