The junior Bible : an American translation
- Date:
- ©1936.
- Collecting Area:
- Mathes Childrens Literature
- Call Number:
- YH B581 J86 1936 LOCAL
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Abstract:
- Believing that the Bible is a book to be enjoyed, and keeping in mind the interests of children, Dr. Goodspeed has selected incidents from his own translation of especial interest to younger readers. The 29 Old Testament and 23 New Testament incidents are prefaced by paragraphs which preserve the continuity of the narrative. Black and white illustrations.
- Historical Note:
- John Merlin Powis Smith (28 December 1866 - November 1932) was an English-born, American orientalist and biblical scholar. Smith also served as an editorial secretary of the Biblical World and was made the editor of the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures in 1915. In 1927, Smith was appointed annual professor at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed was an American theologian and scholar of Greek and the New Testament. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago, whose collection of New Testament manuscripts he enriched by his searches. Smith and Edgar J. Goodspeed were first graduate students together, then colleagues at the University of Chicago, and the two served together on the American Standard Bible Committee charged with the revision of the American Standard Version (ASV). Smith was also the editor of the translation of the Old Testament that accompanied Goodspeed's translations of the deuterocanonical books and the New Testament in the The Bible: An American Translation, which was published after Smith's death. Smith was an honorary member of the Oxford Society for Old Testament Study and, at his death, was president of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/].
- Physical Description:
- xii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Notes:
- "The Bible text is quoted from The Bible: an American translation by J. M. Powis Smith and Edgar J. Goodspeed."--T.p. verso. LOCAL
- Curator Notes:
- 1936 Macmillan imprint, c 1936, inscribed 1936; Bible texts from New and Old Testament are quoted from The Bible: An American Translation, by J.M. Powis Smith and Edgar J. Goodspeed; spine titles and decoation and front cover titles stamped in gold on dark blue cloth
- Subjects:
- Bible stories and Bible stories
- Genres/Forms:
- Bible stories, Bible stories, and Bible stories. lcgft
- Titles:
- Bible History of Biblical events Fiction
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