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共 78 题- ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
- ELEVENTH EDITION
- VOLUME III, SLICE VII
- Bible to Bisectrix
- ARTICLES IN THIS SLICE:
- 1. _Canon._
- 1. The Torah (or "Law"), corresponding to our "Pentateuch" (5 books).
- 2. The "Prophets," consisting of eight books, divided into two groups:--
- 2. _Texts and Versions._
- Origen's 'Hexapla.'
- 3. _Textual Criticism._
- 4. _Higher Criticism._
- 5. _Old Testament Chronology._
- We thus get--
- CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
- 332. The Jews submit to Alexander the Great.
- 323. Death of Alexander in Babylon.
- 322. Alexander's general, Ptolemy Lagi, becomes Satrap of Egypt.
- 305. Ptolemy Lagi assumes the title of king.
- 160. Death of Judas Maccabaeus (1 Macc. ix. 1-22).
- 69. Aristobulus II. (son of Alexandra).
- Reign of Pekah 759-739
- 1. _Canon._
- 2. _Texts and Versions_.
- FIG. 3.--_Codex Alexandrinus._ (_British Museum._)
- FIG. 5.--_Pentateuch_ in Hebrew, 9th Century. (_British Museum._)
- FIG. 11.--First printed English Bible, 1535. (_British Museum._)
- Vulgate
- Tatian's "Diatessaron."
- 3. _Textual Criticism._
- 4. _Higher Criticism._
- 5. _New Testament Chronology._
- 2. The interval between the Nativity and the Baptism.
- 3. The date of the Baptism.
- 5. The date of the Crucifixion.
- FOOTNOTES:
- The Lord's Prayer is rendered in the following way in these gospels:--
- The following specimens may prove of interest:--
- The rules upon which they proceeded were these:--
- 1 Chron.-Eccles.
- FOOTNOTES:
- FOOTNOTES:
- Bideford (Bedeford, Bydyford, Budeford,
- No special works have been written about Magahi. (G. A. Gr.)
- FOOTNOTE:
- ENGLISH BILLIARDS
- FOOTNOTES:
- The following is a specimen of an ordinary form of a bill of exchange:--
- FOOTNOTE:
- FOOTNOTES:
- FOOTNOTES:
- FOOTNOTES:
- These distinctive properties of living matter are--
- 3. Its _tendency to undergo cyclical changes_.
- 2. It occupies a certain position in space and in time;
- 4. Its form, place and powers are the effects of certain causes.
- A. ANATOMY OF BIRDS
- 1. _Skeleton_.
- 2. _Muscular System._
- From Newton's _Dictionary of Birds_, by permission of A. & C. Black.]
- From Newton's _Dictionary of Birds._
- 3. _Nervous System._
- 4. _Organs of Sense._
- 5. _Vascular System._
- 6. _Respiratory System._
- 7. _Digestive System_.
- 8. _Cloaca and Genital Organs._
- B. FOSSIL BIRDS
- C. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
- The scheme adopted in the following account stands as follows:--
- D. CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
- CLASS AVES
- 6. Order Aepyornithes.--_Aepyornis_, recently extinct, Madagascar.
- III. Division CARINATAE.--With keeled sternum.
- II. PELARGOMORPHAE = Ciconiiformes + Anseriformes + Falconiformes.
- IV. CORACIOMORPHAE = Cuculiformes + Coraciiformes + Passeriformes.
- FOOTNOTES:
- The gas, electric and water supplies are