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Preface

Foreword to the First Edition

PART I
CHAPTERS IN INTRODUCTION

1. What Is the Bible?

2. The King James, or Authorized, Version:
Its History and Value
A Chart of Ancient Civilizations

3. The Hebrew People: A Short Sketch of Their
History in Biblical Times

4. The Hebrew People: Their Racial and Literary Characteristics

PART II
THE OLD TESTAMENT

A Chronolgical Table of Old Testament Literature

1. The Earliest Stories of the Hebrews

Legends of the Creation
The Jacob-Joseph Saga

2. The Great Leaders of Ancient Israel

Moses
Joshua
Deborah
Gideon
Jephthah
Samuel

3. The Folk Tale of Samson

4. The Tragedy of Saul

5. The Biography of David

6. Elijah and Elisha and Their Stormy Times

7. Prophecy, and the Great Prophets of Israel

Amos
Hosea
Isaiah
Micah
Jeremiah
Nahum
Second-Isaiah: The Unknown Poet
Third-Isaiah

8. The Fiction of the Bible

Ruth
Jonah
Esther

9. The Book of Job

10. Two Antholgies of Poetry

The Song of Songs
The Psalms

11. The Proverbial Wisdom of Israel

12. Ecclesiastes, or Koheleth, the Preacher

13. The Story of Daniel

PART III
THE APOCRYPHA

Introduction
The First Book of Maccabees
Judith
The History of Susanna
The Book of Tobit
Ecclesiasticus and the Wisdom of Solomon

PART IV
THE NEW TESTAMENT

1. An Introduction to the New Testament

2. St. Luke: His Gospel

3. St. Luke: His Acts of the Apostles

4. The Letters of St. Paul

5. The Vision on Patmos