A Class-Book of Biblical History and Geography / with numerous maps
by H. S. Osborn
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Chapters (150)
- A CLASS-BOOK OF BIBLICAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY:
- PREFACE.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- PERIOD I. THE ANTE-DILUVIAN ERA.
- CHAPTER I. CREATION: CHRONOLOGY AND ITS SOURCES.
- CHAPTER II. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NAMES.
- CHAPTER III. THE DESCENDANTS OF ADAM.
- CHAPTER IV. THE LINEAGE OF THE PATRIARCHS.
- CHAPTER V. THE FLOOD.
- PERIOD II. THE PATRIARCHAL ERA AFTER THE FLOOD TO THE DEATH OF JACOB.
- CHAPTER I. THE TWO ARARATS. THE SONS OF JAPHETH.
- THE DISTRIBUTION OF RACES.
- THE SONS OF JAPHETH: THEIR MORE RECENT NAMES.
- CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF HAM. THEIR MORE RECENT NAMES.
- CHAPTER III. THE DESCENDANTS OF SHEM. JOB.
- THE HISTORY OF JOB.
- CHAPTER IV. THE CONFUSION OF TONGUES.
- CHAPTER V. THE HISTORY OF ABRAM AND HIS TIMES.
- EGYPT FIRST MENTIONED.
- THE FIRST BATTLE.
- SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
- THE ISHMAELITES.
- HEBRON AND MACHPELAH.
- BEERSHEBA AND GERAR.
- CHAPTER VI. THE PATRIARCHS ISAAC AND JACOB.
- JACOB.
- CHAPTER VII. EGYPTIAN TESTIMONIES.
- PERIOD III. THE THEOCRACY TO THE JUDGES.
- CHAPTER I. THE ISRAELITES IN EGYPT.
- CHAPTER II. THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF SINAI AND THE DESERT.
- THE ISRAELITES IN THE DESERT.
- CHAPTER III. THE ENTRANCE INTO CANAAN.
- MT. HOR, MT. NEBO, MT. PISGAH.
- THE ERA OF JOSHUA.
- GILGAL AND JERICHO.
- THE SETTLEMENT IN CANAAN.
- CANAAN.
- THE AMORITES.
- THE HITTITES.
- THE LANGUAGE OF CANAAN.
- THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CANAAN.
- CHAPTER IV. THE BATTLES OF CONQUEST.
- EBAL AND GERIZIM.
- CHAPTER V. THE INTRODUCTION OF IDOLATRY.
- PERIOD IV. THE PERIOD OF THE JUDGES.
- CHAPTER I. THE NATURE OF THE OFFICE. THE CHRONOLOGY.
- CHAPTER II. THE SCRIBES OF THE AGE.
- PERIOD V. THE PERIOD OF THE KINGS TO THE CAPTIVITY.
- CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF THE MONARCHY. REIGN OF SAUL.
- JABESH-GILEAD.
- SAUL’S LAST BATTLE.
- ZIKLAG AND THE SOUTH COUNTRY.
- CHAPTER II. THE REIGNS OF DAVID AND OF SOLOMON.
- GEZER.
- CHAPTER III. THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM.
- TIRZAH.
- CHAPTER IV. ANALYSIS OF THE REIGNS OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL.
- MORAL CHARACTER OF THE KINGS.
- ABEL.
- CHAPTER V. THE INSTITUTION OF THE PROPHETICAL OFFICE.
- PERIOD VI. THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH TO THE CLOSE OF THE CANONICAL PERIOD.
- CHAPTER I. THE VARIOUS CAPTIVITIES.
- THE VARIOUS CAPTIVITIES.
- HALAH, HABOR, HARA, THE RIVER GOZAN.
- CHAPTER II. THE COMPARATIVE RELIGIOUS SPIRIT.
- CONDITION DURING THE CAPTIVITY.
- PROPHETS DURING THE CAPTIVITY.
- TAHPANHES.
- DANIEL.
- EZEKIEL.
- OBADIAH.
- ASSYRIAN KINGS OF THE CAPTIVITY.
- NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
- CHAPTER III. THE CAPTIVITY ENDED.
- THE NUMBER OF THE JEWS AS A RACE.
- CONDITION OF JERUSALEM AT THE RETURN.
- THE HISTORY AFTER THE RETURN.
- SUSA.
- CHAPTER IV. THE CANONICAL BOOKS. SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH.
- THE INSTITUTION OF THE SYNAGOGUE.
- WHO WERE THE SAMARITANS?
- SHECHEM AND SAMARIA.
- THE SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH.
- CHAPTER V. WHAT WAS SCRIPTURE? THE SEPTUAGINT.
- THE ORDER OF THE BOOKS.
- END OF THE CANONICAL PERIOD.
- VARIATIONS IN THE BOOKS.
- THE SEPTUAGINT, B. C. 286‒285. (?)
- CHAPTER VI. THE ORIGIN OF THE TALMUD.
- THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS.
- FORM OF THE TALMUD.
- THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD.
- A WONDERFUL MEMORY.
- CHAPTER VII. CONCLUDING REMARKS.
- PERIOD VII. THE NEW TESTAMENT ERA.
- CHAPTER I. FROM THE BIRTH OF CHRIST TO HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY.
- NAZARETH AND BETHLEHEM.
- THE BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR.
- THE WISE MEN.
- HEROD AND HIS SUCCESSOR.
- THE EARLY CHILDHOOD OF JESUS.
- THE INTERIM.
- THE CHRISTIAN ERA.
- THE HERODS.
- IDUMÆA.
- CHAPTER II. THE PUBLIC MINISTRY OF OUR SAVIOUR.
- BETHABARA.
- THE WILDERNESS.
- DISCIPLES AND APOSTLES.
- THE GENERAL ORDER OF EVENTS. CANA.
- CANA OF GALILEE, JOHN 2:11.
- CHAPTER III. FROM THE FIRST PASSOVER TO THE SECOND.
- MACHÆRUS AND PERÆA.
- ENON AND SALIM.
- JACOB’S WELL, SYCHAR, John 4.
- MATT. 4:12‒17; MARK 1:14, 15; LUKE 4.
- CAPERNAUM.
- CHAPTER IV. THE SECOND PASSOVER AND THE TRANSACTIONS UNTIL THE THIRD PASSOVER. TIME ONE YEAR.
- THE POOL OF BETHESDA, John 5:2.
- HISTORICAL OCCURRENCES OF THIS YEAR IN THE ORDER OF TIME, WITH THE HARMONY OF REFERENCES AND LOCALITIES.
- CHORAZIN AND BETHSAIDA, Matt. 11:21; Luke 10:13.
- GADARA, GERGESA.
- CHAPTER V. THE THIRD PASSOVER.
- TYRE AND SIDON.
- DECAPOLIS.
- DALMANUTHA. MAGDALA.
- JESUS GOES UP TO THE FEAST OF THE TABERNACLES.
- THE LINE OF TRAVEL.
- EPHRAIM, JOHN 11:54.
- BETHANY AND BETHPHAGE.
- ANNAS, CAIAPHAS, PILATE.
- EMMAUS.
- CHAPTER VI. THE BEGINNING OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
- PENTECOST.
- THE IMMEDIATE SUCCESS.
- THE FIRST PERSECUTION.
- CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL.
- AZOTUS, CÆSAREA, LYDDA, JOPPA.
- CHAPTER VII. THE GOSPEL FOR GENTILES AS WELL AS JEWS. FIRST MISSIONARY TOUR OF PAUL AND BARNABAS.
- THE TWO ANTIOCHS.
- JUDÆA, SAMARIA, AND GALILEE.
- A PROCONSUL.
- ICONIUM.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE SECOND AND THIRD MISSIONARY TOURS.
- THE THIRD MISSIONARY TOUR.
- MALTA.
- CHAPTER IX. PAUL AT ROME. THE SEVEN CHURCHES. COLOSSE AND HIERAPOLIS.
- THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA.
- PATMOS.
- Footnotes.
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