Bible Illustrations
Overview
This series of Bible illustrations is arranged in three groups. The first group provides examples of ancient alphabets or writing systems pertinent to the Bible, then shows representative pages or passages from early Bible translations in various languages, and finishes by showing images of pages from early English translations. Group two consists of images illustrating the history, culture, and religion of ancient Egypt, Babylonia, and Assyria. The third group illustrates the historical context in which the New Testament came to be. The Logos edition of this late 19th century public domain work will interest text historians, students of Bible translation, and anyone interested in the Bible’s historical and cultural setting.
Top Highlights
“The former series consisted of sixty-eight Plates; the present series has one hundred and twenty-four. This large increase is partly accounted for by several interesting additions to the illustrations of Old Testament History and Religion, drawn from Egyptian and Assyrian and Babylonian sources; but chiefly by a very large number of facsimiles which have been introduced into the series, in order to amplify the specimens of different versions of the Scriptures, and more particularly to place before the student a full collection of Plates showing the growth of the English Bible.” (Page 3)
“The Egyptians believed in a hidden, unknown, and almighty God; but they also acknowledged the existence of a number of beings of a supernatural nature, to whom they gave the collective title of neteru, ‘gods.’” (Page 45)
“The three greatest gods were Anu, god of the sky; Bel, god of the earth; and Ea, god of the sea. With Anu, the father of the gods, was associated a female counterpart named Anatu; the wife of Bel was Belit; and the wife of Ea was Damkina.” (Page 73)
“The oldest hieroglyphic inscriptions of Egypt are assigned to a period of about 5,000 years before Christ.” (Page 12)
“for some centuries after the birth of Christ. From the” (Page 16)
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Kelton Tobler
12/18/2021
The list of plates (illustrations) links to detailed descriptions of the plates, but neither the list nor the descriptions link to the plates themselves, which are located in the last section of the book. To see a plate, the reader must scroll through all the plates or search within the book for the plate by its Roman numeral.
