Excerpt from Outlines for the Study of Biblical History and Literature The present course of study is the outgrowth of eighteen years of experiment in the effort to give an orderly view of the development and significance of the Bible. The students by whose needs the work has been shaped have included not only those who were looking forward to the work of the ministry, but graduate students pursuing special studies in Oriental history and literature, and undergraduates interested in the study of the Bible as a factor in broad culture. During these years, because of the rapidly increasing appreciation of the place of the Bible in general education, the third class has become by far the most important of the three. Growing out of the effort to meet such varied needs, these outlines will, it is hoped, prove acceptable to more than one class of students. 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.

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