Bible Review

The 1859 Collins edition does not list the illustrations, but they are listed in the 1860 Griffin edition and in the 1861 Collins edition. Both the Collins editions and the Griffin edition contain the same lithographed title page showing the Mound at Nimroud. The 1859 Collins edition has no frontispiece, but the 1860 Griffin edition and the 1861 Collins edition both have a lithograph of El Khasne (Petra).

Helen Guiterman is preparing a catalogue raisonné of Roberts’ work. She will now add a reference to the Roberts Bible.

A logogram is a letter or symbol used to represent an entire word.

Also spelled “Fekheriyeh” or, in French, “Fekherye.”

See Marvin H. Pope, “Hosanna—What it Really Means,” BR 04:02.

Hendiadys is a rhetorical term in which two words, usually connected by a conjunction, are really one phrase.

The Septuagint renders the word mal’akho (his messenger) instead of mal’akhi (my messenger), indicating that the Septuagint translators understood that the word was not a proper name.

The tetragrammaton, YHWH, is the ineffable name of the Israelite God, often written Yahweh and often printed in all capitals as LORD (see Glossary).

Another example is deutero-Isaiah, the name some scholars give to the author of Isaiah 40–66 (though some scholars go further and assign chapters 60–66 to trito-Isaiah)

The order of books in Christian Bibles differs somewhat from Jewish Bibles. Christian Bibles are based on the order in the Septuagint. an early translation from Hebrew into Greek.