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Consider the Bible's Old Testament as a literary masterpiece dramatized by paintings, music, and sculpture
Examine the Old Testament's The Book of Proverbs and other books through a literary lens
Bible scripture Bible The Holy Bible opened to the book of Genesis (1663). This first printing of the Holy Bible in the American colonies is Christian missionary John Eliot's translation into Massachuset (also known as Wampanoag), an Algonquian language. Bury Bible illuminated manuscript
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Consider the Bible's Old Testament as a literary masterpiece dramatized by paintings, music, and sculpture
The Bible As Literature, Part One: Saga and Story in the Old Testament....
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Examine the Old Testament's The Book of Proverbs and other books through a literary lens
The Bible As Literature, Part Two: History, Poetry, and Drama in the Old Testament....
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Did the Israelites really capture Jericho?
Learn about the Battle of Jericho, as described in the Book of Joshua, and follow...
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Moses and the Israelites
Moses leading the children of Israel through the Red Sea, 15th century; illustration...
Ann Ronan Pictures/Heritage Image/age fotostock
Bible
The first printing (1663) of the Bible in the American colonies; it was translated...
The Newberry Library, Gift of Edward Ayer, 1911 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Philip II; Bible
A Bible (1569)—written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin—that was subsidized by...
The Newberry Library, Wing Fund, 1945 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Bible
St. Mark, illuminated manuscript page from the Gospel Book of the Court school of...
Stadtbibliothek, Trier, Ger.
scripture
Le Miroir de humaine saluation (“The Mirror of Human Salvation”) by Ludolf...
The Newberry Library, Louis H. Silver Collection, 1964 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Bible
A leather-covered Bible that has been stamped and tooled with engraved brass fittings....
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1924 (24.142.2), www. metmuseum.org
The Holy Bible opened to the book of Genesis (1663). This first printing of the Holy...
The Newberry Library, Gift of Edward Ayer, 1912 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Bury Bible illuminated manuscript
Moses expounding the law of the unclean beasts, illuminated manuscript page from...
Courtesy of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gutenberg Bible
Two pages from the Gutenberg Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany, 1455.
Graphic House/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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