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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... Assyria were filled with bird figures, but the work was so poorly done, or else the birds so stiffly conventionalized, that it is a difficult matter to decide whether they are eagles, hawks, or vultures. All of these abounded,
Gene Stratton-Porter. they are eagles, hawks, or vultures. All of these abounded, and well might have been used in ... vulture. This leads us to wonder how many years before the time of Moses it was that there were birds with twenty ...
... vultures feasted; upon the young, the eagles; and on the small, the owls. Wolves and jackals had been tamed and bred through generations into dogs, and although they are not mentioned in the Bible, cats were common and so sacredly held ...
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