PUBLICATIONS OF G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

THE SCRIPTURES,
HEBREW AND CHRISTIAN.

ARRANGED AND EDITED AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
STUDY OF THE BIBLE.

Editors.

Rev. EDWARD T. BARTLETT, D.D.,

Dean of the Divinity School of the P. E. Church in Philadelphia, and Mary Wolfe, Prof. of Ecclesiastical History.

Rev. JOHN P. PETERS, Ph.D.,

Professor of Old Testament Literature and Language in the Divinity School of the P. E. Church in Philadelphia, and Professor of Hebrew in the University of Pennsylvania.

The work is to be completed in three volumes, containing each about 500 pages, Vols. I. and II. now ready.

Vol. I. includes Hebrew story from the Creation to the time of Nehemiah, as in the Hebrew canon.

Vol. II. is devoted to Hebrew poetry and prophecy.

Vol. III. will contain the selections from the Christian Scriptures.

The volumes are handsomely printed in 12mo form, and with an open, readable page, not arranged in verses, but paragraphed according to the sense of the narrative.

Each volume is complete in itself, and will be sold separately at $1.50.

The editors say in their announcement: “Our object is to remove stones of stumbling from the path of young readers by presenting Scriptures to them in a form as intelligible and as instructive as may be practicable. This plan involves some re-arrangements and omissions, before which we have not hesitated, inasmuch as our proposed work will not claim to be the Bible, but an introduction to it. That we may avoid imposing our own interpretation upon Holy Writ, it will be our endeavor to make Scripture serve as the commentary on Scripture. In the treatment of the Prophets of the Old Testament and the Epistles of the New Testament, it will not be practicable entirely to avoid comment, but no attempt will be made to pronounce upon doctrinal questions.”

The first volume is divided into four parts:

Part I.—Hebrew Story, from the Beginning to the Time of Saul.
“ II.—The Kingdom of all Israel.
“ III.—Samaria, or the Northern Kingdom.
“ IV.—Judah, from Rehoboam to the Exile.

The second volume comprises:

Part I.—Hebrew History from the Exile To Nehemiah.
“ II.—Hebrew Legislation.
“ III.—Hebrew Tales.
“ IV.—Hebrew Prophecy.
“ V.—Hebrew Poetry.
“ VI.—Hebrew Wisdom.

The third volume will comprise the selections from the New Testament, arranged as follows:

I.—The Gospel according to St. Mark, Presenting the Evangelical Story in its Simplest Form; Supplemented by Selections from St. Matthew and St. Luke.
II.—The Acts of the Apostles, with some Indication of the Probable Place of the Epistles in the Narrative.
III.—The Epistles of St. James and the First Epistle of St. Peter.
IV.—The Epistles of St. Paul.
V.—The Epistle to the Hebrews.
VI.—The Revelation of St. John (A Portion).
VII.—The First Epistle of St. John.
VIII.—The Gospel of St. John.

Full details of the plan of the undertaking, and of the methods adopted by the editors in the selection and arrangement of the material, will be found in the separate prospectus.

“I congratulate you on the issue of a work which, I am sure, will find a wide welcome, and the excellent features of which make it of permanent value.”—Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York.

“Should prove a valuable adjunct of Biblical instruction.”—Rt. Rev. W. E. Stevens, Bishop of Pennsylvania.

“Admirably conceived and admirably executed.... It is the Bible story in Bible words. The work of scholarly and devout men.... Will prove a help to Bible study.”—Rev. Howard Crosby, D.D.

“We know of no volume which will better promote an intelligent understanding of the structure and substance of the Bible than this work, prepared, as it is, by competent and reverent Christian scholars.”—Sunday-School Times.

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
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Page [viii]—41 amended to 40—"... Unsuccessful siege of Bujēya, 40 ..."

Page [72]—Tinnēs amended to Tinnis—"... Damietta, Alexandria, Tinnis, and Cairo ..."

Page [83]—Vizīr amended to Vezīr—"The Grand Vezīr Ibrahīm recognized ..."

Page [133]—a closing quote immediately before footnote reference [40] has been deleted. The text immediately preceding this quote mark does not occur in the referenced work, so I have made the assumption that this quote mark was a typographical error and deleted it.

Page [175]—battaille amended to bataille—"... the centre corps de bataille ..."

Page [222], [footnote]—less amended to lest—"... the hold lest it should interfere ..."

Page [230]—absoluting amended to absolutely—"... and absolutely prohibiting all trade ..."

Page [233]—cruize amended to cruise—"... and cruise across the Egyptian trade route ..."

Page [242], second [footnote]—Olive amended to Oliver—"second ed., London, Oliver Payne, ..."

Page [280]—omitted word 'to' added—"... from an English frigate to which he spoke ..."

Page [283]—Vizir amended to Vezīr—"... a present of female slaves for the Grand Vezīr."

Page [298]—Rear-Amiral amended to Rear-Admiral—"Rear-Admiral Milne, were hard beset ..."

Page [311]—41 amended to 40—"attacks Bujēya, 40;"

Page [312]—Francis amended to François—"Bourbon, François de, 106"

Page [312]—Castelnuova amended to Castelnuovo—"Castelnuovo, 105"

Page [314]—38 amended to 36—"Kheyr-ed-dīn Barbarossa, birth, 31 and n., 36 n.;"

Page [314]—211 amended to 213—"Malta, Knights of, 76, 86 ff., 109, 118-123, 136-8, 141-159, 161, 177, 213;"

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