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Today’s free book is a collection of essays on the apostolic age of early church by Bishop J.B. Lightfoot. These essays were originally published as excurses in Lightfoot’s commentaries and cover such subjects as Jesus’ brothers, St Paul and Seneca and the Essene community. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this…
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Today’s free book is W O E Oesterley’s Introduction to the Books of the Apocrypha. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation. William Oscar Emil Oesterley [1866–1950], An Inroduction to the Books of the Apocrypha. London: SPCK, 1935, 1958. Hbk. pp.345. [Click here to visit…
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Today’s free book is a substantial commentary on the Greek text of the Gospel according to St. Matthew by A H McNeile. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation. Alan Hugh McNeile [1871-1933], The Gospel According to St. Matthew. The Greek Text with Introduction, Notes…
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Today’s free book is Bishop J.B. Lightfoot’s commentary on the Greek text of Paul’s letters to the Colossians and to Philemon. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation. Joseph Barber Lightfoot [1828-1889], Saint Paul’s Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon. A Revised Text with…
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Today’s free book is a set of short synopses of the the lives of Samuel, Saul and David by Edwin Hobson. This book was published as part of a series to assist examination candidates in Church Training Colleges in the early 20th Century. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public…
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Today’s free book is Henry Barclay Swete’s study of the post-Ascension ministry of Jesus Christ, originally written for ministers in training. Swete writes: The purpose of these pages is to follow our Lord so far as we may into this higher life of the Spirit. In this attempt there will be no need to resort…
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Today’s free book is an annotated Hebrew text of the Book of Joshua. The author, Samuel Friedeberg, was a Jewish Rabbi, who was “senior minister of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation, where he served for 41 years“. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation. Samuel…
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Over the lockdown I have been working with the family of Dr Norman H Snaith (1898-1982) and his publishers to digitise as many of his books and articles as possible. Norman Henry Snaith …coming from a Primitive Methodist background, was a remarkable man who rose to become a renowned international Bible scholar; was awarded an…