Excerpt from The Historical Narrative, of the Old Testament The brevity of treatment has the advantage of enabling the reader to catch the unity and the spirit of Old Testament historical narrative - that impressive unity, which is not always clearly grasped even by those who are familiar with much of the detail, and that religious spirit which is, after all, the thing of supreme importance. The latter point, in particular, the writer of this volume has endeavoured to make plain; for through the Hebrew historians, the God who of old time spoke to the fathers, is speaking still to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.