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OUTLINE STUDIES
IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT
FOR
BIBLE TEACHERS

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PREFATORY

This book has been prepared at the request of the NewYork State Sunday School Association, through its NormalCommittee. The desire was expressed for a teacher-trainingcourse to include two years in the Bible: one yearupon subjects contained in the Old Testament, taking thehistorical point of view, and presenting with the historythe lands and the Israelite people, their institutions ofworship; and a second year upon the New Testament,following the same plan.

Those who have studied "Revised Normal Lessons"and "Studies in Old Testament History" will find most ofthese "Outline Studies" familiar; for it has not been mypurpose, as it was not the desire of the committee, to furnisha series of new lessons, but to have the subjects ofOld Testament study brought together in one volume.Each subject, however, has been studied anew, and theresults of recent knowledge, especially in the chronology,have been incorporated in this revision. At the requestof the committee new lessons on "The Old Testamentas Literature" and "How We Got Our Bible" have beenadded.

It is my earnest desire that through these studies theBible may be better understood and more thoroughlytaught by the Sunday school teachers of our land.

South Orange, New Jersey,
September, 1905.

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