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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... picture to an enslaved and superstitious people the story of the beginning of the world. Again, Moses and his contemporaries in the compilation of the Bible wrote from their personal knowledge and the traditions of their ancestors. They ...
... picture of the distress which should fall upon the Israelites for their many sins, one naturally thinks of a bird of swift flight, as the swallow. The origin of the oftquoted phrase, "A little bird told me," can be found in Ecclesiastes ...
... picture of the happy homelife of a pair of brooding birds in mind when, in recounting the days of his prosperity, he cried: Then I said I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand." A proverb in Ecclesiastes ...
... pictures in the world has birds as its subject. It is a fragment of a fresco taken from a tomb at Maydoon, and now in the museum at Cairo. This picture was painted three thousand years before Christ and near two thousand years before ...
... pictures ever made with accuracy were done with a camera, which truly reproduces life. The records of Moses began four thousand years before Christ, and in our day nineteen hundred and nine years afterward – five thousand nine hundred ...