GENERAL REMARKS IT must be understood that these appendices are dealing solely with the literary study of Scripture as defined in this work. For theological or historic studies, students should seek information from authorities with whom they are in agreement: literary study is common ground between all schools of thought. An essential of literary study is a properly printed text, which presents literary structure clearly to the eye. This, which is taken for granted in all other literature, is not given by versions of the Bible in ordinary use. To meet this difficulty The Modern Reader's Bible has been prepared, which prints the words of the Revised Version in full structural form, with introductions and notes. The whole Bible, with part of the Apocrypha, is covered by twenty-one volumes, which may be procured separately, or all together.1 The volumes are as follows: : Genesis - The Exodus - Deuteronomy — The Judges — The Kings - The Chronicles. Proverbs Ecclesiasticus - Ecclesiastes and Wisdom of Solo mon - Job. The Psalms [two volumes]- Biblical Idyls [containing Solomon's Song, Ruth, Esther, and Tobit]. 1 Macmillan, London and New York. Price of each volume: (English), cloth, 2/6; (American), cloth, 50 cents, leather, 60 cents. In the American edition the twenty-one volumes may be procured in a case; price: (cloth), $10; (leather), $12.60. [Note: There are three additional volumes (see below, pages 353 and 354) not included in this case.] Isaiah Jeremiah — Ezekiel — Daniel and the Minor Prophets. St. Luke and St. Paul [two volumes] - St. John- St. Matthew, etc. Of the ordinary versions, the Revised is essential for literary study. It inherits, and often enhances, the beauty of phraseology which distinguished King James's Version, and further, gives a connectedness of thought which was little sought by the earlier translators. If this version be used, it will be well to mark with a lead pencil in the margin the divisions of literary works in Scripture, such as may be collected from Appendix I. Apart from formal study, it is suggested that in ordinary reading of Scripture selections should be made with the assistance of Appendix I (or similar reading lists), and not by the misleading divisions of chapter and verse in the old versions. |