CHAPTER CONTENTS I THE MAKING OF THE BIBLE II THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW SPIRIT III WHAT, THEN, IS INSPIRATION? IV THE PENTATEUCHAL ALPHABET V SONGS AND STORIES VI THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN VII THE Two HISTORIES VIII THE PROPHETS: THE ASSYRIAN PERIOD X THE PROPHETS: AFTER THE EXILE XI THE POETS XII THE WISE MEN XIII BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS XV THE RECORDS OF ST. MATTHEW XVII THE EARLIER EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL I XX THE FIVE SERMONS XXI THE JOHANNINE Books XXII THE LIBRARY OF THE GRACE OF GOD INDEX PAGE 1 9 22 32 49 69 83 105 127 152 168 189 213 223 237 250 264 279 296 309 323 344 357 How To Know the Bible I THE MAKING OF THE BIBLE T HE Bible is in everybody's house, 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 because 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 better knowledge of the Bible begins with the |
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