A Summary of Biblical Antiquities, Vol. 1 of 2 PDF Download

Author: John Williamson Nevin
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259991250
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Excerpt from A Summary of Biblical Antiquities, Vol. 1 of 2: Compiled for the Use of Sunday-School Teachers, and for the Benefit of Families; Embracing Notices of Natural History, With Domestic and Political Antiquities The following little work was undertaken chiefly with a view of contributing some help to the great cause of Sunday School education. That something of the kind is much wanted, for the use of common instructors, in the work of such education, cannot be doubted. The books in which such information as it is intended to contain is to be found, are not within the reach of meat of those who are called to take upon them this character; and if they were, they are not adapted to answer effectually the want that is felt in the present case. Most of them have been written for the use of such as have far more than common advantages of edu cation and learning, whose business leads them to much reading, and whose minds are trained to diligence and pa tience in the pursuit of knowledge. Even the few which have been designed for more popular and common use, are such that their advantages can never extend to the great ma jority of those who read the Bible they are too large, and, of course, too expensive, to be generally procured; they are too Mass, and too much elevated in style or darkened with learning, to be generally read or understood. Since the establishment of Sunday Schools, various short sketches of information on some particular points of Jewish Antiquities, have been supplied in difl'erent publications intended for their use, which have, no doubt, answered a valuable pur pose, as far as they extended; but all the advantage which such scattered fragments can secure, must manifestly be very limited and iniperfect, in comparison with what might be, and ought to be, derived from this quarter of scripture illustra tion. Evidently. A short, simple, systematic compilation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.