CONTENTS

CONTENTS

BOOK I.

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW •

TESTAMENTS.

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Ama ^-1.—The Jews under the Persians and the Kings of

Egypt . . . . . 1

PART IL—The Jews under the Kings of Syria 5

PART III. Rise of the Asmoncean Dynasty . 10

PART IV. —Decline of the Asmoncean Dynasty; interferenc(

of the Romans, and rise of the Herodian Family 19

BOOS

THE GOSPEL HISTORY.

PART The Birth and Childhood of Christ . 34

PART n.-Froan the beginning of the Ministry of the Bap-

tist to the First Passover . . 40

PART III. From the first Passover to the Election of the Apostles . . . . . . . . 45

PART V.—From the Election of the Apostles to the Death

of John the Baptisi . . . 52