Text extracted from opening pages of book: GREAT HEBREW FROM
MANASSEH TO JOHN THE BAPTIST BY HENRY THATCHER FOWLER, PH. D.
Professor of Biblical Literature and History, Brown University
gotfc THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1920 AU right* reserved EDITOR'S
PREFACE The Great Leaders Series aims to meet the needs of moral
and religious secondary education. Adolescence is pre-eminently the
period of Idealism. The naive obedience to authority characteristic
of child hood is to a large extent supplanted at this time by self
initiative; by self-determination in accordance with ideals adopted
or framed by the individual himself. Furthermore, the ideals of
this period are concrete rather than abstract. They are embodied in
individual lives, and, generally, in lives of action. Hence biog
raphies of great leaders appeal strongly to the ado lescent. They
furnish examples and stimulus for con duct along the higher lines.
The Great Leaders Series will include a large number of volumes
devo'ted to the study of some of the greatest moral and spiritual
leaders of the race. Although designed primarily for use in the
class-room, they will serve admirably the pur poses of a general
course of reading in biography for youth. E. HERSHEY SNEATH.
PREFACE The present volume, the' third in order of The Biblical
Literature Series, is designed primarily to meet the needs of
students in the middle years of secondary instruction. Leading
American universities and colleges are now coming to allow one or
two units of credit in Biblical history and literature among the
regular elective sub jects for college entrance. This fact promises
to make it far easier than in the past for secondary schools to
include Biblical study in theregular curriculum with the same
intellectual standards that are maintained in the study of other
histories and literatures. Such stand ards of work applied to the
varied writings and stir ring history of the Bible enable students
of high school age to secure some true understanding of the Bible's
contribution to civilization. At the same time, such study gives a
broader and firmer basis for the use of the Bible in the
development of personal religious life. Even in advanced courses of
Biblical study, much of the period covered in this volume is often
neglected, although it is rich in inspiration and gives the
essential background for a historical understanding of the New
Testament. Available . text books for the period are few, and the
writer hopes that this book, in addition to its primary purpose,
may fill a real need for ad vii viii PREFACE vanced classes in
Sunday Schools and in Young Men's and Young Women's Christian
Associations. Possibly the general reader too may find some of the
chapters opening up new fields of interest. The book is planned
with the thought that, where time is limited, only the text of the
chapters need be studied. If it is possible to give two lessons to
each of the thirty chapters, one of these may be devoted to the
mastery of the text and the other to the study of the references at
the close of the chapter. When the subject is to be offered for
college entrance, the latter method should certainly be followed.
In general, the references give the principal sources on which the
state ments of the text rest. Especially in Biblical study, where
interpretations have differed so widely and where clear convictions
are so vital to life and charac ter, students maywell be encouraged
to go to the sources and make up their own minds as to the truth or
error of conclusions drawn from these. In con nection with some of
the chapters, it will be practicable for each student to read all
the references; where the passages are too long for this,
assignments may readily be made for individual report. HENRY
THATCHER FOWLER. APPENDIX BOOKS FOR STUDENT AND TEACHER Each
student should be provided with a copy of the Bible, preferably the
Revised Version. This both gives a more exact representation of the
original than the King James Ve
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