The People's Bible History: Prepared in the Light of Recent Investigations

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George Claude Lorimer
Henry O. Shepard Company, 1896 - Bible - 910 pages
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FROM THE CREATION TO THE DAWN OF HUMAN HISTORY 65120
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From creation to the dawn of history 65 Light of meaning of the opening book of the Hexateuch
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Features of the Priestly Code 66 The Elohist 67 The Eduction of the cosmos 73 74 Work of the first day
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Harmony between Genesis and physical science an the father of Shem Ham and Japheth 103 The cor
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MARTHA AND MARY
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The woman formed out of man 83 The first man 84 giants 104 God punishes the fallen spirits 104
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The Fall 90 The mother of mankind eats hyperbolical 108 Similarity of legends of the deluge
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Adam and Eve are clothed by God 94 The infamy of Ham III Noahs awakening and
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FROM THE CALL OF ABRAHAM TO THE BONDAGE OF ISRAEL 121160
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Birth and training of Abraham 121 Migration of Chaldean monuments 131 Abraham and Ishmael
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divine plan 123 Reasons for the stay there 123 Laxity Dean Stanleys interpretation of the tragedy 137
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FROM THE BIRTH OF MOSES TO THE BEGINNINGS OF FREEDOM 161204
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entage of the lawgiver 164 The mothers stratagem identification of the mount of the law 188 Israel called
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The murder of an Egyptian taskmas both of worship and of law 191 Analysis and signifi
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of Pharaohs host 180 The greatest tragedy of an Lifting up of the brazen serpent 200 Defeat of
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from the constitution of man 205 Religious develop ideas of the Aryans 210 Aryans free from the sensual
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Egyptian philosophical cult of gross materialistic pan Dwindling of worship at close of antediluvan period
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His dilemma 221 Jobs argument
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Tabernacle 230 231 The Holy of Holies 231 Symbol
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rationalism corresponds to their sin 238 Fire the sign
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Lessons of obedience instanced by Achan King Uzziah
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FROM THE PATRIARCHAL TENT TO Tue PRIESTLY TABERNACLE 205266
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FROM THE INVASION OF CANAAN TO THE LAST OF THE JUDGES
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tine of ancient and modern times 267 The invasion by and the site cursed by Joshua 282 The sin of Achan
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REV R S MACARTHUR D D Baptist Pastor Calvary Baptist Church New York City
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Rahab an ancestress of Jesus 277 Her place in his of cruelty 293 The Israelites swords wrought a work
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of the Canaanites tributary tribes 298 The conquests
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and duration of service 305 Table of the oppressors
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and utter rout of the Midianites and vengeance upon
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childless widow prefers her claim upon Boaz but
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FROM THE RISE OF THE MONARCHY TO ITS DECLINE 339380
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roused to action awakens the people and wins a signal upon Saul to execute vengeance 346 Amalek doomed
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David presents himself to Saul at Gibeah Analysis of some of the Psalms of David 362 Some
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New invasion by the Philistines 350 The to proper duty and the dignity of worship resumed
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king of Gath and in the Cave of Adullam 352 The in Tamar Davids daughter dishonored by her half
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months for Nabonidus 456 Belshazzars identity re Artaxerxes liberal treatment of Jews 489 Ezra with
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ored and enabled to advance the interests of his people Samaritans build a temple and set up a rival priesthood
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the point of union of all races 501 Mixture of the Jew Mattathias 520 Commanded to sacrifice to heathen
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book of prayer and praise suited to the needs of the and wise rule of Simon Maccabæus 526 Treaty with
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made a subject of bargain and sale 518 Antiochus The benefits conferred on their country by the Macca
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LITERATURE AND MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
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Evidence of authenticity of the Epistles of Paul the agreement of a company of independent witnesses
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most complete and convincing 541 Classification of Corroborative inference from the record of the Epistles
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son of events by which date of writing is fixed 551 Value of our English translation of the Bible 570
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at Cambridge England and the Codex Claromontanus the second century 582 The Coptic New Testament
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FROM THE BIRTH IN BETHLEHEM TO THE CRUCIFIXION ON CALVARY
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Jesus at Bethlehem 594 The message to the shepherds filled with madness 625 The Sermon on the Mount
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Dimittis of Simeon and his blessing of the child and 631 The teaching by parables 632 The parable of
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JESUS CHRIST Bida 533
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John the Baptist cousin of Jesus 605 The Promises to his disciples 639 The fate of John
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Doubting Thomas loyal faith 659 Touching and of the Talents 670 The Last Supper of the Lord
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young man 662 The parable of the Vineyard 662 The by the servant of the High Priest 674 Peters denial
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Parable of the Wicked Husbandman ana maltreated by the mob 678 Led away to be crucified
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Axel Ender
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sent to despatch the sufferers 681 The two thieves commission 692 Appears to the disciples at intervals
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SARAH WIFE OF ABRAHAM
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port the mystery to the governor and Jewish elders 690 The idea of the philosophers of immortality vague
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The spirit sent from heaven 708 Advent of at Lystra 739 Appeals against the worship of
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Stephen the first martyr 720 Saul the smith arouses antagonism 753 A tour in Macedonia
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The visit of the Holy Ghost 731 First baptism of Gen prison 762 The Hebrew colony at Rome 762 Paul
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TEL ELAMARNA TABLET
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FROM THE FALL OF JERUSALEM TO THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY
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+ Emperor Caligula 772 The man of sin claiming of his career 796 The lesson of love imparted to
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itable with the charity of the early centuries she could slaughter 839 Galerius ends the persecutions
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the charge of hypocrisy 846 Mother of Constantine ognized and enforced 849 The triumph of the Church
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of the Church as the only true Church publicly rec Finis
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VESPASIAN
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TitleThe People's Bible History: Prepared in the Light of Recent Investigations
George Horace Lorimer Library
The People's Bible History Prepared in the Light of Recent Investigations by Some of the Foremost Thinkers in Europe & America, George Claude Lorimer
EditorGeorge Claude Lorimer
PublisherHenry O. Shepard Company, 1896
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized5 Dec 2008
Length910 pages
  
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