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INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

ERRATA

Page xv, Booklet VI. line 2: for Jeremiahan, read Jeremianic
Page xv, Poem of Nahum, title: for or, read on

Page xxxv, Introd. line 36 to the right: for prophets, read proph-
ecies

Page 25, Proverbs, Ref. to A. V.: for xxi, 17-xxiii; read xxii,
17-xxiii

Page 86, line 38 should be a blank space; verse intruded from 1.
54, below

Page 119, line 14: for eahweh, read Yahweh

Page 164, last line of note; for xvii, read xviii

Page 270, X. strophe 3, line 4: for give up, read, give thee up

Page 279, III. 4: for eaves, read leaves

Page 288, I. strophe 4, line 4: for plate, read gate

Page 312, Ref. to A. V. for Exordium: for iii, 1; iv, 28 read, iii,
1-iv, 28

Page 419, Append. A, II, b: for Aqila, read Aquila

CHAPTER I. TO THE DEATH OF JACOB

SECTION

I. The Creation of Man and the founding of nations

II. The origin of the Israelites

III. Their early life in Canaan

IV. How they came into Egypt

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III. The Feast of the Covenant and the Giving of the

Law

IV. The last years of their wandering in the desert,
and their first conquests

I. Joshua leads the tribes across the Jordan; con-

quers Jericho and Ai

II. Joshua's conquests towards the North and assign-
ment of the tribal possessions

III. The various tribes win their allotments and estab-
lish their tribal government

IV. The last of the Warrior-Judges, and the first

aggressions of the Philistines

anoints Saul, son of Kish. Saul rescues Jabesh-

Gilead from the Ammonites

II. Saul forfeits the kingship over all Israel. David

slays Goliath and routs the Philistines.
maddened by jealousy, pursues him

Saul,

III. Saul is slain by the Philistines. David becomes
King of Judah and conquers Benjamin

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