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The Bible Year

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 2, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 11.

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The Bible Year

Assignment for March 5 to 11

Questions to Answer

What is the Pentateuch? What does the word mean?
By whom were the books of this group written? What other names are applied to them?
Give the meanings of the names of the first five books of the Bible.
What striking illustration is given in Deuteronomy of the Saviour’s words in Matt. 20:16?
By what incident is the difference between faith and presumption clearly shown?
What beautiful example of submission to the will of God is recorded in this book?

Make the Bible Real

“Parents, I urge you to make the Bible the sweetest, the dearest book to your children; not by compelling them to read so many chapters each day, which will have the effect of making them hate the Bible, but by reading its pages with them, and by your tender parental love, so showing them the beauty of its wondrous incidents, from the story of Adam and Eve to the story of Bethlehem and Calvary, that no other book in the home will be so dear to your children as the Bible; and thus you will be strengthening their minds with the sublimest truths, storing their hearts with the purest love, and sinking deep in their souls solid principles of righteousness, whose divine stones no waves of temptation can ever move.”— A. E. Kittredge.

Joshua—the Book

The book of Joshua is the first of the twelve historical books, which record the history of the chosen people from their first occupation of the land of Canaan as a nation to the return from the captivity. The book is named for its leading character, by whom a part of it is supposed to have been written. “The whole tenor of the first twelve chapters,” says Fallows, “bespeaks an eyewitness who bore some part in the transactions; and the expression ‘we were passed over,’ in chapter 5:1, bears this out, as well as the circumstantial vividness of the narrative. . . . This section from chapters 13 to 22 inclusive, which contains an account of the distribution of the land, seems to be based upon written documents, in which the property was accurately described.”
The book covers a period of twenty-five years, and introduces the second division of the Old Testament, the historical books. It describes the conquest of Canaan, its division among the tribes, and makes mention of the typical rest in that land, which foreshadowed the complete rest of God’s people in heaven. Part of the book is “the spirited recital of heroic deeds,” part of it is given up to geographical records, and part contains earnest admonition and solemn warning.