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Title: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Angus, Joseph, 1816-1902 Hoyt, F. S. (Francis Southack), 1822-1912 Madden, Frederic W. (Frederic William)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Fagan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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n thenarrative and the institutions, showing that both had oneauthor. The laws are not given in the form of statutes, butare mixed with narrative, and are inserted as the exigenciesrequiring them arose. They are often briefly sketched, andafterwards repeated at greater length, with such modificationsas were demanded by altered circumstances.b (4.) No lessremarkable is the agreement between the style of the differentbooks and the circumstances of Moses. In the earlier nar-rative of Exodus and Numbers the style is broken and abrupt.Iii Deuteronomy it is continuous and parental. The historyof the antediluvians is brief and simple; of the Jews, fulland explicit; and the whole exhibits the unity of designwhich bespeaks a single author. 3 See Gen. xiii. 10; xl. 11, 16 (see pp. 380-1); xlii. 9; xlvii. 20-6:Deut. xi. 10: Numb. xiii. 22. b Compare Exod. xxi. 27, and Deut. xv. 12, 17. Numb. iv. 24-33,and vii. 1-9. Lev. xvii. 3, 4, and Deut. xii. 5, 6, 21. Exod. xxii. 26,and Deut. xxiv. 6, 10-15
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SPECIMEN OF TABLETS FOUND AT NINEVEH. The researches of Layard and others among the exhumed palaces of Ancient Nine-vali have brought to light many sculpt ured representations and inscriptions of thepower and glory of the ancient Assyrian monarchs, of great interest to the studentand antiquarian. Besides these, vast quantities of the books constituting the royallibrary of King Assurbanipal,—of which the above is an accurate representation,—were found in complete preservation. They were printed on pottery. Large quantities of these volumes, some entire and others shivered, were removedto the British Museum. Mr. George Smith, of the British Museum, one of the mostaccomplished adepts in deciphering these hieroglyphics, who has toiled for fourteenyears over these volumes, has ascertained that these thousands of fragments really < < in-stitute aconnected series. Among these is a continued narrativeof the deluge, whichcorresponds in many remarkable points with the Biblical account

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