The Biography of the Bible, by Ernest Sutherland Bates, [1937], at sacred-texts.com
The Biography of the Bible, by Ernest Sutherland Bates, [1937], at sacred-texts.com
Achilles, 6
Acts of the Apostles, 55–56. 143
"Acts of Solomon, The Book of the," 32
"Aelfric's Heptateuch," 80
Aeneid, 83
Aeschylus, 18
Agamemnon, 6
Age of Reason, The (Paine), 138–139
Agur, 44
Albertus Magnus, St., 91
Aldhelm of Malmesbury, 80
Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, 48
Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), Pope, 99
Alfred the Great, king of the West 79, 108
Alighieri, Dante, 37
Allen, William, Cardinal, 120
American Bible Society, 51, 166
American Revision Committee (for the R. V.), 128–129, 130
Andrewes, Lancelot, 122
Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria, 49
Apocalypse of Peter, 63
Apocrypha, 42, 49–52, 105, 128
Apostles’ Creed, 63
Apostolic Constitutions, 63
"Apostrophe to the Sun," 15
Aquila, 62
Arius, 64
Astruc, Jean, 140
Athalie (Racine), 95
Athanasian Creed, 73
Athanasius, 65, 67, 68, 70, 72
Augustine of Hippo, St., 68, 70–71, 72, 77
Authorized Version, 51, 110, 114, 118, 121–125, 126, 127, 128, 130, 145, 149
autos, 93
Balaam, 25
Ballantine, F. S., 146
Ballou, Adin, 165
Baur, Ferdinand Christian, 142–143
Bede, 76
Benedict of Nursia, St., 81
Benjamin (tribe), 36
Beowulf, 75
Beza, Theodore, 115
Bible: an American Translation, The (ed. Smith), 147
Bible in America, The (Simms), 166
Biblia Americana (Mather), 161
Biblia Pauperum, 92
"Bishops’ Bible," 117–118, 120, 123
Boaz, 42
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus, 79
Boleyn, Anne (Henry VIII's second wife), 112–113
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 137
Book of Common Prayer, 114
"Breeches Bible," 115; also see "Geneva Bible"
Bristow, Richard, 120
British Bible Society, 51
British Revision Committee (for the R. V.), 128–129, 130
Brook Farm, 165
Browne, Sir Thomas, 154
Buddhism, 61
Bultmann, 142
Buonarroti, Michelangelo, 96–97
Burleigh, William Cecil, Lord, 117
Butler, Joseph, 136
Byzantium, see Constantinople
Calchas, 25
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 94
Cambridge University, 112, 121, 122
Campbell, George, 127
Canaanites, 12
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 83, 99
Caraffa, Cardinal, 119
Carthage, Synod of, 71
Catherine of Aragon (Henry VIII's first wife), 111
Century of Dishonor, A (Jackson), 164
Chaldaea, 14
Challoner, Richard, 127
Channing, William Ellery, 165
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, 77–79
Charles I, king of England, 126
Charles Martel, dux of the Franks, 84
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 83, 99, 103 "Chevy Chase," 17
Cheyne, Thomas Kelly, 141
Children's Crusade, 86
Christmas, 93
Chronicles I, 41
"Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, The Book of the," 32
"Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, The Book of the," 32
Chrysostom, St. John, 4
Civil War (American), 124
Clarke, James Freeman, 165
Clement VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini), Pope, 119
Clement of Alexandria, 62
Cochlaeus, John, 109
Codex Alexandrinus (A), 126
Codex Vaticanus (D), 118
Coelestius, 71
Colossians, 54
Connecticut, 160
Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius), 79
Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor, 64, 65
Constantinople, 64, 72, 73, 84, 86, 96, 103–104
Constantinople, Council of (2nd ecumenical), 68, 74
Corinthians II, 53
Councils, see under the names of places where held
"Court History of David, The," 14, 32
"Covenant, Book of the," 30
Coverdale, Miles, 112–114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 159
Cranmer, Thomas, 114
"Cranmer's Bible," 114
Cretans, 12
Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex, 13.1
Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, 40
Damasus, Pope, 69
Dandolo, Enrico, doge of Venice, 86
Danes, 76
Daniel, Book of, 37, 49–50, 77, 140
Dante, see Alighieri, Dante Davenport, John, 159
David, king of the Jews, 6, 12, 14, 3.8, 22, 42, 47
Deborah, 20
deists, 137
Delphic oracles, 25
De Quincey, Thomas, 155
"Destruction of Bel and the Dragon," 49–50
Deuteronomists, 30, 31–33, 36, 40
Deuteronomy, 25, 29, 30, 33, 36, 79, 87–88, 140, 141
Diderot, Denis, 137
Divina Commedia, La (Dante), 37
Dobneck, Johann, 109
"Douai Bible," 119–121, 123, 127
Driver, Samuel Rolles, 141
Duns Scotus, Johannes, 91
Ecclesiastical History (Bede), 76
Ecclesiasticus, 49
Eckhart, Meister, 44
Edomites, 35
Edward III, king of England, 101
Edward VI, king of England, 114
Eichhorn, J. G., 140
Einleitung (Eichhorn), 140
Elijah, 25
Eliot, George, 142
Eliot, T. S., 122
Elisha, 25
Elizabeth, queen of England, 117
Elohim, 23
Ely, 76
England, 75–77, 79–80, 99, 100–102, 106–107, 108, 109, 111–115, 117, 118, 121–125, 127–128, 153–154
England, Church of, 117, 118, 121
Enoch, Book of, 51
Epistle of Barnabas, 63
Epistle of Clement of Rome, 63
Erasmus, Desiderius, 105, 107, 109, 112, 126
Esdras I and II, 50
Esther (Racine), 95
Estienne, Robert, 116
Eusebius of Nicomedia, 65
Eve, 19
"Fable of Jotham," 15
filioque controversy, 73
Fornarina, La, 97
Four Gospels: a New Translation, The (tr. Torrey), 148
Fourth Gospel, see John, Gospel of Foxe, John, 112
France, Anatole, 144
Frazer, Sir J. G., 142
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 86, 93
Galatians, 53
"Geneva Bible," 115–117, 118, 120, 121, 123, 124
Gibbons, James, Cardinal, 146
Gideon, 14
Gideon Society, 129
Gilby, Anthony, 115
Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli), 97
Golden Bough, The (Frazer), 142
Goodspeed, Edgar J., 125, 146–147
Gospels, 55–57, 63, 80, 100, 142, 143, 147–148
"Great Hee Bible," 124
"Great She Bible," 124
Greek Catholic Church, 74
Gregory I the Great, Pope, St., 79
Gregory XIV (Niccolo Sfondrati), Pope, 119
Grenfell, Bernard Pyne, 144
Gutenberg, Johann, 104
"Gutenberg Bible," 104
Guthrac of Croyland, 80
Haggai, 39
Hagiographa, 50
Hammurabi, king of Babylon, 31
Harvard University, 164
Hebrews, Epistle to the, 54, 106, 117
Henry V, king of England, 102
Henry VI, king of England, 102
Henry VIII, king of England, 111, 112
Herodotus, 20
Hexapla, 62
Hexateuch, 32
Hezekiah, king of Judah, 27, 29
Higher Criticism, 131, 132–149
Hiram, king of Tyre, 12
Historia Scholastica (Petrus Comestor), 92
Historical New Testament, 146
History of the World (Orosius), 79
Hitler, Adolf, 168
Hobbes, Thomas, 132–133, 135, 140, 141
Holbach, Paul Henri, Baron d’, 137
Holy Sepulcher, 83
Homer, 153; also see Iliad
Hopedale, 165
Hort, Fenton John Anthony, 129
Hrotswitha of Gandersheim, 92
Hume, David, 136
Hunt, Arthur Surridge, 144
Huss, John, 103
Hutchinson, Anne, 160
Iliad, 25
India, 25
Ingersoll, Robert, 139
Innocent III (Lothario Conti), Pope, 89, 93, 101
Isaiah, 27–28, 29, 30, 36, 37, 38, 140
Isis worship, 60
Israel (kingdom), 12–13, 23, 26, 27, 31, 36
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 164
Jahveh, see Jehovah
James, Jesus’ brother, 54
James I, king of England, 118, 121, 122
"Jashar, Book of," 14
Jehovah, 19, 23, 24, 26, 40, 41, 44
Jephthah, 14
Jerome, St., 68, 69, 70, 72, 78, 123
Jerusalem, 28, 34, 35, 40, 42, 83, 85, 86
Jerusalem (Blake), 155
Jesus the Christ, 20, 39, 54–55, 56, 60, 61, 63, 78, 89, 101, 106, 142, 143, 173
Jesus ben Sirach, 49
Jews, Chapters I and II, et passim, especially 87–88
Jezebel, queen of Israel, 22
Joan of Arc, 169
Joan of Arc (De Quincey), 155
Job, 46
Job, Book of, 45, 80, 167, 173
Joel, 39
John, Gospel of, 53, 54, 56, 57, 90, 131, 143, 148, 168
Joshua, 20
Josiah, king of Judah, 30, 33, 141
Jubilees, Book of, 51
Judah (kingdom), 12–13, 23, 26, 27, 28, 36
Judah (tribe), 36
Judea, 48
Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere), Pope, 99
Justin Martyr, St., 101
King James version, see Authorized Version
King Philip's War, 163
Kings, Book of the, see Kings I, Kings II
Kings I, 22, 32–33, 36, 41, 68, 80
Kings II, 22, 30, 32–33, 36, 41, 68, 80
Koran, 84
Lamentations, 34
Langland, William, 103
Lastingham, 76
Law, the, 50
Leben Jesu (Strauss), 142
"Leda Bible," 117; also see "Bishops’ Bible"
Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl of, 117
Lemuel, King, 44
Leonardo da Vinci, 97
Lindisfarne, 76
Lindisfarne Gospels, 80
Loisy, Alfred Firmin, 142
"Lost Sayings of Jesus," 145
Louis IX, king of France, St., 86
Lowth, Robert, 140
Lucar, Cyril, 126
ludi, 93
Luke, Gospel of, 55, 56, 77, 89, 125
Luther, Martin, 103, 104, 105–106, 108, 109–110, 168
Maccabaeus, Simon, 49
Maimonides, 133
Mainz, 104
Malachi, Book of, 39
Manasseh, king of Judah, 29–30
Manichaeism, 88
Marathon, battle of, 18
Mark, St., 55
Marsh, Dr., 127
Martin, Gregory, 120
Mary I, queen of England, 114
Masoretes, 105
Massachusetts, 115, 159, 160, 161
Massachusetts Bay colony, 159, 168
Mather, Cotton, 161
Mather, Richard, 158
Matthew, Gospel of, 55, 56, 57, 62, 72–73
Matthew, Thomas, see Rogers, John Matthew's Bible, 113, 123
Megiddo, battle of, 33
Messiah, 52
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 117
Michelangelo, see Buonarroti, Michelangelo
Milton, John, 37
Mithraism, 60
Moab, land of, 31
"Modern Reader's Bible, The," 130—131
Moffatt, James, 146
Monmouth, Humphrey, 108
More, Sir Thomas, 111
Mormonism, 166
Moulton, Richard Green, 130–131
Nebuchadrezzar (Nebuchadnezzar), king of Babylon, 33
New Testament, 52-58 et passim, especially 110–111, 116, 117, 119, 126, 127, 141, 144, 145, 146–148
New Testament: an American Translation, The (Goodspeed), 146–147
New Testament in Modern Speech, 146
Nicaea, Council of (1st ecumenical), 65
Nicholas I, Pope, St., 73
Nicholas of Hereford, 102
Noah's ark, 8
Northern Kingdom, see Israel Numbers, 15, 25
Obadiah, 35
Obedience of a Christen Man (Tyndale), 111
Old Testament, 14–52 et passim, especially 119, 140, 141
Omri, king of Israel, 24
Orosius, Paulus, 79
Ossian, 10
Oxford University, 101, 107, 121, 122
Oxford University Press, 125
Papias, 55
Parable of the Wicked Mammon (Tyndale), 111
Paradise Lost (Milton), 37
"Paradiso" (Dante), 37
Paris, Thomas, 125
Parker, Matthew, 117
Parker, Theodore, 165
Passover, 41
Past and Present (Carlyle), 157
Pastoral Care, The (Gregory the Great), 79
Paul, St., 53, 54–55, 70, 100, 106, 142, 143
Paul's Epistles in Modern English (tr. Fenton), 145–146
Pelagius, 71
Pentateuch, 25, 32, 110, 112, 140, 141
Persians, The (Aeschylus), 18
Peter, St., 72
Peter I and II, 54
Peter the Hermit, 85
Petrie, Sir Flinders, 143
Petrus Comestor, 92
Philemon, 54
Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, 110
Philip II Augustus, king of France, 86
Philippians, 54
Phillips, Henry, 112
Philo Judaeus, 56
Photius of Constantinople, 73–74
Plautus, Titus Maccius, 92
Poitiers, battle of, 84
Practyse of Prelates (Tyndale), 111
Prayer Book, 50
"Prayer of Manassas King of Juda," 50
Preacher, The, see Ecclesiastes Princeton University, 164
"Prophecy of Balaam," 15
Prophetical Books (Blake), 37
Prophets, 19, 25–29, 30, 33–35, 36–39, 41, 50, 137
Prophets, the (division of the O.T.), 50, 141
Protestants, 51, 88, 105, 109, 166, 167
Psalms, 22, 47–48, 80, 114, 117, 133, 141, 161
Psalterium Americanum (tr. Mather), 161
Purvey, John, 102
Racine, Jean, 95
Raphael, see Sanzio, Raffaello
Reimarus, Samuel, 137
Revelation, 37, 53, 57–58, 106
Revised Version, 110, 126, 127–129, 130, 131
"Rheims Bible," see "Douai Bible"
Richard I Coeur-de-Lion, king of England, 86
Ripley, George, 165
Rogers, John, 113
Roman Catholic Church, 50, 72–74, 78, 81, 91, 92, 94, 95, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 110, 111, 117, 118–119, 120, 165–166
Roman Empire, 59, 61, 64, 83, 174
Romans, Epistle to the, 54
Roses, Wars of the, 103
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 137
Roy, William, 109
Rushworth Gospels, 80
Sampson, Thomas, 115
Samson, 14
Samuel, Book of, see Samuel I, Samuel II
Samuel I, 33
Sanzio, Raffaello, 97
Sarah, 8
Sardica, Council of, 67
Saul, king of the Jews, 23
"Sayings of Jesus," 55
Scarlett, Nicholas, 127
Schaff, Philip, 128
Schoeffer, Peter, 109
Selwyn, Dr., 127
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, 27
Septuagint, 4, 33, 34, 50, 59, 62, 69
Shakespeare, William, 94
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 29, 137
Shepherd of Hermas, 63
Simms, P. Marion, 166
Sinai, Mt., 26
Sisera, 17
Sixtus V (Felice Peretti), Pope, 119
Smith, J. M. Powis, 147
Smith, Miles, 123
Smith, William Robertson, 141
"Soldier's Pocket Bible, The," 124
Solomon, king of the Jews, 6, 7, 13, 14, 22, 43, 44
"Song of Deborah," 15, 16–17, 20
"Song of Lamech," 15
Song of Solomon, see Song of Songs Song of Songs, 5, 42–44, 104–105, 131, 140
"Song of the Three Children," 50
"Song of the Well," 15
sortes Vergilianae, 83
Southern Kingdom, see Judah Sparta, 48
Spencer, Francis A., 146
Spinoza, Benedict, 133–135, 140
"Standard Edition," 125
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 152
Strauss, David Friedrich, 142, 143
Streonshalh, see Whitby
Susanna, 49
Suso, 44
Symmachus, 62
Synods, see under places where held Synoptic Gospels, 52, 54, 56, 57
Tauler, Johannes, 44
Taverner, Richard, 113
Temple, Jerusalem, 30, 31, 39, 41, 141
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), 92
Testament of Our Lord, 63
Thebes, 48
Theodotion, 62
Thessalonians I and II, 53
Thomas Aquinas, St., 91
Timothy I and II, 54
Tintoretto (Iacopo Robusti), 97
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), 97
Titus, Epistle to, 54
Toland, John, 137
Torrey, Charles Cutler, 147–148
Tours, 77
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (Spinoza), 135
Traffic (Ruskin), 157
Tunis, 86
Turner, Nat, 168
Twentieth Century New Testament, 146
Tyndale, William, 107–112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 169
Tyre, Council of, 67
Ulfilas, 67
United States, 128–130, 146–147, 153–154, 164–169
Unknown Prophet, see Deutero-Isaiah
Urban II (Eudes de Châtillon), Pope, 84
Urban V (Guillaume Grimoard), Pope, 101
"Uriel," 90
Urn Burial (Browne), 154
Utopia (More), 111
Valverde Castle, 111
Veronese, Paolo (Paolo Cagliari), 97
Victor I, Pope, St., 73
Vie de Jésus (Renan), 143
"Vinegar Bible," 125
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), 153; also see Aeneid
Virgin Mary, 57
Virginia, 115
Vision of Piers Plowman, The (Langland), 103
Volney, Constantin François de Chasseboeuf, Comte de, 137
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de, 137
Vulgate, 50, 69–70, 77, 78, 101, 119, 123
Wakefield, Gilbert, 127
Walsh, Sir John, 107
"Wars of Jehovah, Book of the," 14-15
Wearmouth, 76
Wellhausen, Julius, 141
Westcott, Brooke Foss, 129
Weymouth, Richard Francis, 146
Whitby, 76
Whittingham, William, 115, 116
Wiclif, John, 101-102, 103, 108, 110
Wilberforce, Samuel, 128
William of Malvern, 107
Williams, Roger, 44, 160, 167–168, 169
Winthrop, John, 44
Wisdom of Solomon, 49
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal, 109
Writings, see Hagiographa
Yale University, 164
Yarrow, 76
Zechariah, 39
Zoroastrianism, 61