The times., 1898-01-09
The Polychrome Bible

Inc most SiSnlnCant exploit in recent
Biblical scholarship is the preparations
of what is called the Polychrome Bible.
1t rivals the Importance of the Revised
New Testament given out in 1881 both
IN originality Of its inception and the
emlnence'l OF the scholars who have
been addncedito the monumental task
The Polgichnome' Bible is to appear in
twentN-ssNen parts so far as the Old
Testaf9s9f5 is concerned, and an :dea
Of the scope Of the whole work nay
be had from Consideration of the Book
of judges, which has lust been re-
ceived fTsSfn The press
The wf1ofe work is being edited by
DIR. Paul Haupt, professor of Hebrew
and the cognate languages in the
Johns Hopkins University. assisted by
Dr. Horace Howard Furness, of Phila-
delphia, but the books have been sep
arately translated by various scholars.
pre-eminently gifted by life study
among the learned of the world TO ac-
complish each his separate assignment.
The authorized version of 1911 was ex-
clusirely the work of English savants
and the Revised Version of 1881 was
the product of English and American
students, but the Polychrome Bible ap-
pears TO be the product OF the scholar
ship of the world. In its band of
translators we find side by side with
the most eminent Biblical scholars of
America, such as President Harper
of Chicago; Drs. Moore, of Andover:
Toy. OF Harvard: Curtis, of Yale;
Ward, editor of The Independent New
York: Brown. of Union Theological
Seminary; Morris Jastrow. jr, of Phila-
delphia McCurdy, of Toronto, etc, the
leading English scholars like Drs.
Cheyne. Driver, George A Smith,
Ryle, Martineau. etc, as well as Drs.
W H.
Budde, Corniil. kittel, Delitzsch and
others, representing the best scholar
ship of the continent.
This production. which is a rendering
of the original text into modern Eng
lish. is intended as d book to be read
by the people without the necessity OF
| a glossary and commentaries, though
there are copiouS notes. 1t is embellish-
ed with pictorial illustrations from As
syrian and Egyptian natural and mon
umental sources. and the polychrome
feature recommends it to the highest
type of student To give to the read
er. in visible form. the results of Mod
ern Criticism as to the different sources
from which some Of the Old Testament
books have been made up, the text is
printed on variously colored back
grounds exhibiting the composite
structure of the books. 1t thus records
the lT0SCltl Stilti stl dEtttIiitIIl Va llit
most competent Biblical scolars. These
are all men who thoroughly believe
in the inspiration of the Bible, but who
feel that the time has come to make
accessible 10 the general public the re-
suits arrived at by the most eminent
specialists who have devoted their lives
to these Investigations. The present
book Of Judges embodies all these
chara teristic features The transla-
"a 10. lnx-f flna psax- A. q
ID. D., professor in Andover Theologi-
cal Seminary. For purposes of COM
parison the new reading of the first
lines of the first chapter of Judges is
given. and the Biblical student will OBJ
serve radical verbal difference with
assistance TO the sense and no sacrifice
of the spirit of the text;
After the death of Joshua the lsraelites
inquired of JhYh: Who OF us shall first
go ilp to make war on the Canaa mites?
JhNh answered: Judah shall go. l VIII
give tie land into their power The
tribe of Judah said to their kinsmen of
Simeon: Go with US into the territory
allotted 10 us, that we may make war on
the CannaniteS, ami then We Will go with you
into your territory. So the Simeonites
went with them. Then the tribe of Judah
invaded the country, and Jhvh delivered
the Canaanites and PeriZZites into their
power and they defeated them at Beck.
and killed IUiip0 men. And they came
upon A doni3beze at Beck, and fought
with HIM asnii dAfeated the Canaanites and
rerizZites.- A deni- beck fled, but they
pursued and look him. and chopped off
his thumbs and his great toes. And 4 doni-
bezeRr sstst1 seventy kings. with their
thuisbs 1andr great toes chopped off used
TO PICK up scraps under my table; accord
ing to thysuwn deeds God has requited me-
And they brought him to Jerusalem and
There he died, There the .Indahites at
tackled Jerusalem. and took it, putting its
inhabttantS 10 the sword, and destroyed the
city by fire.
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