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STORY OF THE BIBLE ANIMALS.
704 Pages. 300 Illustrations.
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This book contains a description of each animal mentioned in the Bible, and tells of its appearance, its habits and the use to which it was put by mankind.
The importance of understanding the nature of these animals, as a means of making clear the Scriptures, will be readily seen when it is remembered how frequently they are mentioned in the Bible, and how different many of them must be from those which we are accustomed to see.
Some passages in the Bible which have formerly possessed little or no meaning to the ordinary reader will have a new significance after the "Story of the Bible Animals" has been read, and the descriptions which it contains of the animals of the East, and the habits of Eastern people, have become familiar.
The book is not only interesting and instructive from the stories which it contains on the ever-popular subject of Natural History, but it also presents a vivid description of life in the Bible lands.
It describes the appearance at the present time of many of the places mentioned in the Bible, as well as the manners and customs of the people who dwell there.
Adventures of modern travellers in these unfamiliar and seldom-trodden paths form an important part of the book and are of absorbing interest, presenting to the reader a graphic picture of life in the Holy Land as it is to-day.
In the never-changing East this is in many respects a counterpart of the times in which the Bible was written. The Arab as he speeds across the desert upon his swift dromedary, or sits at the door of his tent watching his flocks and herds, retains many of the customs which prevailed in the time of Abraham.
The wild animals of these countries still roam through the forests and are hunted and slain by mankind. The crocodile and hippopotamus of the Nile are yet found in that mighty river, and yield their lives to the courage and skill of modern hunters as did those of old.