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The world's greatest story : the epic of the Jewish people in Biblical times / Joan Comay ; with drawings by Edward Bawden.
- Title
- The world's greatest story : the epic of the Jewish people in Biblical times / Joan Comay ; with drawings by Edward Bawden.
- Author
- Comay, Joan.
- Publication
- New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1978.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BS1197 .C53 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Bawden, Edward, 1903-1989
- Description
- 384 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Introductions
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. 1: The children of Israel -- In the beginning -- The patriarchs -- The exodus -- The conquest and the settlement -- The united monarchy -- The reign of David -- The two kingdoms -- Exile and return -- Four stories from the Old Testament -- Pt. 2: The books of law, poetry, wisdom and prophecy -- The Mosaic code -- The Psalms -- Lamentations -- The song of songs -- Proverbs -- Job -- Ecclesiastes -- The Hebrew prophets -- Pt. 3: The Apocrypha -- What are the Apocrypha? -- Tales from the Apocrypha -- The Maccabean revolt -- Pt. 4: The background -- The land -- The Near East setting -- Digging up the past.
- ISBN
- 0030198615
- 9780030198618
- LCCN
- ^^^78002035^
- OCLC
- 3706938
- SCSB-12173580
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library