CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION:

The Old Testament: Its Literary Character and underlying

Plan of Arrangement...

NOTES:

CHAPTER

I. Old Testament History Interwoven with Story and Song.....

II. Transition from History to Collected Literature..

III. Collected Books of the Prophets...

IV. Collected Psalms and Lyrics of Israel..

V. The Poem of "Zion Redeemed" (Isaiah 40- 66] as Climax of the

Old Testament..

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Notes to Particular Passages or Books..

General Notes..

VI. The Books of Wisdom: Intermediate between the Old and the

New Testament. . . . .

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MAP

INDEXES:

Index I. Connecting the Selections in this work with the Chap-

ter and Verse arrangement of ordinary Bibles....

General Index...

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269

464

509

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THE MODERN READER'S BIBLE FOR

SCHOOLS

Introduction

THE OLD TESTAMENT: ITS LITERARY CHARACTER AND UNDERLYING PLAN OF ARRANGEMENT