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BY-PATHS OF BIBLE KNOWLEDGE.Under this general titleThe Religious Tract Societypurposes publishing a Series of Books on subjects of interest connected with the Bible, not adequately dealt with in the ordinary Handbooks.The writers will, in all cases, be those who have special acquaintance with the subjects they take up, and who enjoy special facilities for acquiring the latest and most accurate information.Each Volume will be complete in itself, and, if possible, the price will be kept uniformly athalf-a-crown.The Series is designed for general readers, who wish to get in a compact and interesting form the fresh knowledge that has been brought to light during the last few years in so many departments of Biblical study. Intelligent young readers of both sexes, Sunday-school teachers, and all Bible students will, it is hoped, find these Volumes both attractive and useful.The order of publication will probably be as follows, the titles in some cases being provisional:I. CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE.A History of the Obelisk on the Embankment, a Translation and Exposition of the Hieroglyphics, and a Sketch of the two kings, whose deeds it commemorates. By Rev.James King, M.A., Authorized Lecturer to the Palestine Exploration Fund. (Now ready.)II. ASSYRIAN LIFE AND HISTORY.ByM. E. Harkness, with an Introduction byReginald Stuart Poole, of the British Museum. (In October.)III. A SKETCH of the most striking Confirmations of the Bible, shown in the recent Discoveries and Translations of Monuments in Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, etc.By the Rev.A. H. Sayce, M.A., Fellow of Queen’s College, and Deputy Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, Member of the Old Testament Revision Committee. (In November or December.)IV. BABYLONIAN LIFE AND HISTORY, as Illustrated by the Monuments.ByMr. Budge, of the British Museum.V. THE RECENT SURVEY OF PALESTINE, and the most striking Results of it.VI. EGYPT—HISTORY, ART, and CUSTOMS, as Illustrated by the Monuments in the British Museum.VII. UNDERGROUND JERUSALEM.N.B.—Other Subjects are in course of preparation, and will be announced in due course.LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY,56. PATERNOSTER ROW.
BY-PATHS OF BIBLE KNOWLEDGE.
Under this general titleThe Religious Tract Societypurposes publishing a Series of Books on subjects of interest connected with the Bible, not adequately dealt with in the ordinary Handbooks.
The writers will, in all cases, be those who have special acquaintance with the subjects they take up, and who enjoy special facilities for acquiring the latest and most accurate information.
Each Volume will be complete in itself, and, if possible, the price will be kept uniformly athalf-a-crown.
The Series is designed for general readers, who wish to get in a compact and interesting form the fresh knowledge that has been brought to light during the last few years in so many departments of Biblical study. Intelligent young readers of both sexes, Sunday-school teachers, and all Bible students will, it is hoped, find these Volumes both attractive and useful.
The order of publication will probably be as follows, the titles in some cases being provisional:
I. CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE.A History of the Obelisk on the Embankment, a Translation and Exposition of the Hieroglyphics, and a Sketch of the two kings, whose deeds it commemorates. By Rev.James King, M.A., Authorized Lecturer to the Palestine Exploration Fund. (Now ready.)
II. ASSYRIAN LIFE AND HISTORY.ByM. E. Harkness, with an Introduction byReginald Stuart Poole, of the British Museum. (In October.)
III. A SKETCH of the most striking Confirmations of the Bible, shown in the recent Discoveries and Translations of Monuments in Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, etc.By the Rev.A. H. Sayce, M.A., Fellow of Queen’s College, and Deputy Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, Member of the Old Testament Revision Committee. (In November or December.)
IV. BABYLONIAN LIFE AND HISTORY, as Illustrated by the Monuments.ByMr. Budge, of the British Museum.
V. THE RECENT SURVEY OF PALESTINE, and the most striking Results of it.
VI. EGYPT—HISTORY, ART, and CUSTOMS, as Illustrated by the Monuments in the British Museum.
VII. UNDERGROUND JERUSALEM.
N.B.—Other Subjects are in course of preparation, and will be announced in due course.
LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY,56. PATERNOSTER ROW.
Footnotes:
[1]Prov. iv. 18.
[2]Eph. ii. 13.
[3]Acts xvii. 30, 31.
[4]Rawlinson’s “History of Ancient Egypt,” Vol. II., pp. 240-243.
[5]Rawlinson’s “History of Ancient Egypt,” Vol. II., p. 253.
[6]Brugsch, “History of Egypt,” Vol. II., p. 57, 1st ed.
[7]Rawlinson’s “Ancient Egypt,” Vol. II., p. 318.
[8]“History of Architecture,” Vol. I., p. 113.
[9]1 Peter i. 24, 25.
[10]Heb. xi. 24-26.