ABSTRACT
The religious associations surrounding the Bible make it difficult for the general reader to appreciate, in its full purity, the value which the Scriptures bear as literature, and as an epic in no way inferior, in cultural worth, to the greatest works of Greece and Rome. Dealing as it does with elementary passions and principles, the English Bible is, in the author’s view, the greatest book of all the ages. This book, first published in 1931, will be of interest to students of literature and religious studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |108 pages
The Genius and Discipline of the Hebrew People
chapter |11 pages
The Marks of a Supreme Book
chapter |11 pages
An Epic of Redemption
chapter |14 pages
How Did a Literature so Great Come from a People so Small?
chapter |19 pages
The Mental and Spiritual Characteristics
chapter |20 pages
The Literary Qualities of the Hebrew Mind
chapter |13 pages
How the Hebrew Writings Became an English Classic
chapter |18 pages
The Diction of the English Bible
part |148 pages
Literary Values of the old Testament Books
chapter |23 pages
The Earliest Histories Ever Written
chapter |41 pages
The Historical Books of the old Testament
chapter |16 pages
Biblical Poetry
chapter |19 pages
Biblical Poetry
chapter |34 pages
The Prophets
chapter |6 pages
The Humanists of Israel
chapter |7 pages
Prose Fiction
part |29 pages
The Literary Qualities of the New Testament