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Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. III

By A. H. Sayce

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NEW EDITION (35,000) 1s.

How we Got Our Bible.
An Answer to Questions suggested by the Late Revision.
BY

J. PATERSON SMYTH, LL.B., B.D.,

Senior Moderator and Gold Medalist, Primate's Hebrew Prizeman, &c., &c.
Trinity College, Dublin.

Multæ terricolis linguæ, cœlestibus una.

LONDON:

SAMUEL BAGSTER & SONS, LIMITED.

DUBLIN: EASON & SON, LIMITED.

p. 134

"HOW WE GOT OUR BIBLE."

REVIEW NOTICES AND OPINIONS OF EMINENT MEN.

Letter from the Bishop of Derry.—Palace, Derry, Jan. 1886.

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William, Derry and Raphoe.

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Archdeacon Farrar.

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"HOW WE GOT OUR BIBLE."

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THE OLD DOCUMENTS
AND
THE NEW BIBLE.
An Easy Lesson for the People in Biblical Criticism.

BY

J. PATERSON SMYTH, LL.B., B.D.

Senior Moderator and Gold Medalist, Primate's Hebrew Prizeman, &c., &c.
Trinity College, Dublin.

THE OLD TESTAMENT.

Multæ terricolis linguæ, cœlestibus una.

LONDON:

SAMUEL BAGSTER AND SONS, LIMITED.

DUBLIN: EASON & SON, LIMITED.

THE OLD DOCUMENTS
AND THE NEW BIBLE.
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REVIEW NOTICES AND OPINIONS OF EMINENT MEN.

It is not too much to say that this is a book that should be put into the hands, or better still, into the head of every Sunday School teacher and scholar. There is another excellent little book by the same author, "How we got our Bible," of which we may say the same thing.—Oxford Journal, April 5.

From Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.

I find the work itself most interesting. I have rarely seen the faculty of lucid exposition more conspicuously displayed.
From the Professor of Hebrew, Trinity College, Cambridge.

A very readable and attractive account of a subject on which I fear very general ignorance prevails.
A thoroughly excellent book is Mr. J. Paterson Smyth's Old Documents and the New Bible. … The history of the Bible is a subject on which nearly equal ignorance and curiosity prevail among the people, and Mr. Smyth's book meets a real want.—Scottish Leader, April 10.

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Much impressed by the range of knowledge it displays, and by the vigour and clearness with which the subject is presented.