. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . volume or book. These an-cient books, like ours only in being the reg-istry wherein things were written, often re-ceived their names with reference to the con-tents ; thus we find the books of the Kings,books of some individual reign or personalhistory, books of the generation, or genealo-gy, the book of judgment, and pre-eminent-ly the book of the The name kirjath-sepher (book-city, city of books), the earliern
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . volume or book. These an-cient books, like ours only in being the reg-istry wherein things were written, often re-ceived their names with reference to the con-tents ; thus we find the books of the Kings,books of some individual reign or personalhistory, books of the generation, or genealo-gy, the book of judgment, and pre-eminent-ly the book of the The name kirjath-sepher (book-city, city of books), the earliername of the city afterward called Debir,shows that written records were in useamong the Canaanites before the occupationof their country by the children of was commandedto write for a memori-al, in a book,the im-portant events of theprogress from Egyptto Canaan; and Godhimself delivered tothe Israelites the firstbook of which we haveany description, andthe best, the ten commandments, writtenwith his own finger upon tables of stone. Books were written on skins, or linen, orcotton cloth, or the Egyptian papyrus; fromthe latter—the material most used for writ-.
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