scholarship has developed in studying the Bible. In this regard, though, we confess to having practiced restraint, providing students with only an introduction to the topics evoked by the last centuries’ study of the Bible, not a comprehensive survey of those topics. In treating the books of the Bible according to these three simple headings we hope to please a greater number of readers than those we vex. We also hope to have given our Introduction some distinction that sets it apart from others,
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