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Excerpt from Joshua to Job: Being a Continuation of the Old Testament in Art, and a Companion Volume to the Gospels in Art And the Apostles in Art N this book the Old Testament in Art is continued, and the aim is to find a pleasant pathway through the most sinister periods in the Bible history of the Jews. They are periods of dire tragedies. How great is the slaughter in a multitude of battles, and how many are the deeds, either full of a headlong ruthlessness, or else charged with patient and determined crime. If these things were represented in pictures (as they used to be, one by one, in the Bible illustrations of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), a book repellent to all sensitive minds would be the inevitable result; because those very incidents that live least fruitfully in the memory would supersede the kinder and better events. In written histories everything of note should be recorded, but it happens frequently that prose descriptions are so vivid and so painful that they neither need nor justify a further portrayal by means of the thorough realism of the graphic arts. 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.

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