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.”