From Abraham to David

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Excerpt from From Abraham to David: The Story of Their Country and Times Did it ever occur to you when reading the Old Testament that the books are chiefly biographical? - a series of word-pictures of the lives of men, some great, some good, many bad. It gives terse accounts of nations, shows their origin, rise, and fall, and all this 'was written for our learning.' Do you really feel that all these accounts are true? You who know the history of Rome and Greece, and are familiar with the story of Romulus and Remus, of Cæsar, of Antony, Trajan, blind old Belisarius, and a host of others. Your hearts beat as you realise the struggles, the combats, the whole life of these heroes. You study the lives of Leonidas, of Socrates, of Xenophon, and you believe what you read. You take up 'the father of history, ' and you know that Herodotus, full of interest as his pages are, is now found to be more truthful than at one time he was thought to be. Yet there were warriors as brave, heroes as daring, poets as fine, as any that those Greeks or Romans tell of, and Old Testament stories are true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.