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Book Description

Title:
A Primer of the Bible
Author:
Publication Year:
Location:
London
Publisher:
Methuen & Co.
Pages:
228
Subjects:
Bible, Introduction
Copyright Holder:
Public domain

William Henry Bennett [1855-1920], A Primer of the Bible

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Part I. Old Testament
    1. Introductory
    2. The Prophets of the Eighth Century—Amos, Hosea, Isaiah and Micah
    3. The Prophets of the Last Days of Judah — Nahum, Zephaniah, Habakkuk, Jeremiah, Obadiah
    4. Ezekiel
    5. Lamentations, Second Isaiah, and other Literature to the Close of the Exile
    6. New Editions of the Law and the History—Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Law of Holiness (Lev. xvii.- xxvi., etc.)
    7. The Post-Exilic Prophets—Completion of the Book of Isaiah; Haggai, Zechariah i.-viii., Malachi, Joel
    8. The Final Editions of the Law and the Older History; the Priestly Code, Pentateuch and Joshua
    9. Job, Proverbs, Canticles and Ruth
    10. The Psalter
    11. The Greek Period (n.c. 332 to about B.C. 150)—Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Jonah, Zech. ix.-xiv., Daniel, Ecclesiastes
    12. The Pre-Christian Apocrypha
    13. Canon, Text and Pre-Christian Versions of the Old Testament
  • Part II. New Testament
    1. Introductory
    2. The Synoptic Gospels and the Acts
    3. The Pauline Epistles
    4. Hebrews, James, I and 2 Peter, and Jude
    5. The Johannine Literature
    6. The Christian Apocrypha
    7. The Formation of the Christian Bible
    8. The Protestant Bibles
  • Appendix A. Analysis of the Hexateuch
  • Appendix B. Chronological Table of the Books of the Old Testament
  • Index