CONSTRUCTIVE BIBLE STUDIES

EDITED BY
ERNEST D. BURTON

HEROES OF ISRAEL

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Agents THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY NEW YORK

THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON AND EDINBURGH

HEROES OF ISRAEL

TEXT OF THE HERO STORIES WITH NOTES AND QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG STUDENTS

By

THEODORE GERALD SOARES

Professor of Homiletics andReligious Education in the University of Chicago

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Copyright 1908 By

The University of Chicago

All Rights Reserved

Published January 1909

Second Impression September 1909

Third Impression December 1909

Second Edition October 1911

Composed and Printed By

The University of Chicago Press

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

TOMY FATHER

MY FIRST HERO

PREFACE

It is the purpose to present these Hero Studies in two books, one beingthe present volume which is intended as a textbook for the students, theother being the teacher's manual with fuller explanations andsuggestions. The necessary prefatory statements will be found in therespective books under the titles "Foreword to the Student" and"Foreword to the Teacher".

This volume contains the text of the stories, with explanatory notes andquestions intended to stimulate study. Each lesson consists of acomplete story arranged in such a way as to impress the main features ofthe narrative clearly upon the student's mind. The explanatory materialis reduced to the minimum, since the main desire is to let the storiesspeak for themselves and not to burden the student with wearisomedetails. The three reviews divide the course into the three naturalparts, the first extending to Christmas, the second to the end of March,the third, which is shorter, to the middle of June, when it is usuallywise for the regular courses to end.

The text of the British Revisers is used in the reprint of the storieswith the consent and approval of the Oxford and Cambridge Universitypresses. As the plan of simplifying the narratives involved certainverbal changes, it has seemed wise to go a step farther and to use thespellings which would be more familiar to American students.

For constant suggestions as to form and method I am greatly indebted tomy wife, who has taught the lessons from advance sheets to a class ofboys. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the valuable counsel of ProfessorE. D. Burton, the editor of the series, and especially that of ProfessorJ. M. P. Smith, who at Professor Burton's request, and to my own greatsatisfaction, assumed the editorial responsibility of reading themanuscript, and gave me the benefit of his ripe scholarship andjudgment.

T. G. S.

July 29, 1908

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