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 writers had any benefit from it. So that the birds mentioned in the Bible, and the history of their habits and characteristics, which is mostly used as the basis of comparisons of bird life with man, form our very earliest records ...
... Bible writers accepted these laws of Moses, and what they had to say of birds was more in the way of comparing the processes of bird life with man. Solomon recorded that he "spake three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand ...
... Bible historians, the oldest was Aristophanes, the Grecian satirist, who lived 444 B. C. and wrote the immortal ... Bible and that of pagan writers of Greece and Rome, of the same days, and even centuries later. There is scarcely a ...
... Bible birds, what is said of them by pagan writers will compare much better if used in the chapter containing the Bible records of the same subject. Aelian, of Italy, published a rather miscellaneous account of birds and animals 140 ...
... writers who have had the benefit of centuries more of enlightenment than he. Then, too, it must be remembered that Moses has been translated, revised, and reedited many times without his knowledge or consent. The beauty of the work of ...