I XX I I I I I 12 I Chap. Verse Page 125 xix The Jawbone of an Ass... 9 126 The Gates of Gaza.. XVI I I28 xxi Samson and Delilah.. 4 128 xxii Death of Samson... 23 131 xxiii Micah's Images and the Danish Migration XVII 132 XVIII I 133 xxiv The Benjamite War... XIX 137 XX 141 XXI 1 146 I SAMUEL Book VII i Birth of Samuel I 151 II 153 ii Call of Samuel and Dooming of Eli...... 155 III 158 IV 160 iii The Ark and the Philistines.... V 163 VI 164 VII 167 4 167 v The Anointing of Saul and Retirement of Samuel .. VIII 169 IX 171 X I 174 XI 177 XII 179 6 XIII 182 vii The Raid on Michmash. 15 184 XIV 185 8 47 190 ix The Amalekite War and Breach between Samuel and Saul... XV 191 I I I I 2 I I I I I I I I 197 I I Chap. Verse Page XVI I 195 14 196 203 206 215 XXV I 223 228 233 3 233 XXX I 238 In small 18mo volumes. Cloth extra. Price, 50 cents each. The Modern Reader's Bible A Series of Books from the Sacred Scriptures pre sented in Modern Literary Form The purpose of this Series has regard to the Bible as part of the World's Literature, without reference to questions of religious or historic criticism. It is based upon the belief that the natural interest of Sacred Literature is considerably impaired by the form in which the Bible is usually read. The division into chapters and verses was made at a time when the literary significance of Scripture was not much considered. Moreover, the proper arrangement of the printed page, which to a modern reader has by familiarity become essential, and which is adopted as a matter of course in a modern edition of a Greek or Roman classic, has never been applied to our Bibles. Such arrangement includes the distinction between prose and verse; in verse passages the indication to the eye of different metrical forms; the insertion of the names of speakers in dialogue; the assignment of titles to such compositions as Disc urses and Essays. It may be added that the inclusion of many diverse kinds of literature in a single volume is unfavourable to the due appreciation of each. Each number of the Series will be issued as a separate volume, edited, with an introduction, by RICHARD G. MOULTON, M.A. (Camb.), PH.D. (Penn.), Professor of Literature in English in the University of Chicago. The Introductions will be confined strictly to the consideration of the book as a piece of literature; wh lit is added in the way of annotation will be of the same kind. The text will be that of the Revised Version, the marginal readings being usually preferred. The order in which it is proposed to issue the volumes is as follows: WISDOM SERIES IN FOUR VOLUMES THE PROVERBS A Miscellany of Sayings and Poems embodying Isolated Observations of Life. Ready ECCLESIASTICUS A Miscellany including longer compositions, still embodying only Isolated Observations of Life. Ready ECCLESIASTES — WISDOM OF SOLOMON Each is a Series of Connected Writings embodying, from different standpoints, a Solution of the Whole Mystery of Life. Ready THE BOOK OF JOB A Dramatic Poem in which are embodied Varying Solutions of the Mystery of Life. Ready DEUTERONOMY The Orations and Songs of Moses, constituting his Farewell to the People of Israel. Ready BIBLICAL IDYLS The Lyric Idyl of Solomon's Song, and the Epic Idyls of Ruth, Ready HISTORY SERIES IN FIVE VOLUMES GENESIS Bible History, Part I: Formation of the Chosen Nation. Ready Bible History, Part II: Migration of the Chosen Nation to the Land of Promise. - Book of Exodus with Leviticus and Numbers. August THE JUDGES Bible History, Part III: The Chosen Nation in its Efforts towards Secular Government. - Books of Joshua, Judges, I Samuel. September THE KINGS Bible History, Part IV: The Chosen Nation under a Secular October THE CHRONICLES Ecclesiastical History of the Chosen Nation. Books of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah. November PROPHECY SERIES IN FOUR VOLUMES ISAIAH December THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. |
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