The Birds of the BibleJazzybee Verlag, 2017 M02 6 - 308 páginas Gene Stratton-Porter, the Indiana novelist and bird lover, offers the fruits of several years' loving labor in "Birds of the Bible”, a handsome volume. The riches of bird lore that Mrs. Porter has unearthed will surprise anyone who opens the book. "Birds of the Bible " is designed for all lovers of birds in general, and lovers of Bible birds and Bible poetry in particular. It contains every reference made to birds in the Bible: describes the location, and explains the characteristics of the bird. In this book, the author, one of the most successful writers of her days, both as a naturalist and a novelist, has made her greatest effort to do something worth while for the world, having given three years to the preparation of the text. |
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... Bible. Although a Hebrew, Moses was reared and educated in the court of an Egyptian king, and so had access to all ... Land. After forty years of wandering the spot was located, and the Hebrews began making homes for their families and ...
... earth submerging it in a sea which reached almost, if not quite, the boiling point. As the land masses cooled they shrank greatly, and the depressions formed the beds of seas, while the highest points lifted above the water. When the crust.
... land; and with different environment took on different forms. While these forms were developing in the water, in the warm, steaming, halflight on land great beds of mosses, marsh plants, and gigantic ferns fifty feet in height and with ...
... land and water with life. The only explanation for this would seem to be that these germs were caught in the vapor clouds and fell upon the earth in the form of rain. Now, as we dig up layers of coal, and the slate and rock which go to ...
... form our very earliest records. Moses first wrote of the birds when he specified those which were not to be used for food, while compiling the laws to govern the Hebrews after they had reached the Promised Land. As a rule, it.