A MANUAL OF BIBLE HISTORY: Complete in Two Volumes

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Originally published in two volumes in 1906-08 by BENZIGER BROS. , this kindle edition contains both, the Seventh Edition of the first volume published in 1920, and the Second Edition of the second volume published in 1918. It is fully edited with a linked Table of Contents. The marginal index from the original publication has been converted into approximately 1750 subheadings all compiled in the Detailed Contents at the end of this kindle edition.

Rev. Charles Hart, B.A. was Assistant Master at St. Cuthbert's Grammar School, today known as the St. Cuthbert's Catholic High School; a boys-only Roman Catholic secondary school located in the Benwell Hill area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Reviews at the time of its publication noted:
The main object aimed at in compiling this work has been to supply a want much for a text-book of Scripture history which may serve as an introduction to the study of the Bible. A special point about the Manual is that the exact words of the Sacred Text have been so interwoven with the narrative that the simple grandeur of the sublime Bible stories has been to a great extent preserved. Knowing by practical experience the difficulty of getting a clear grasp of the historical facts relating to the separated kingdoms of Juda and Israel, the author treats of their affairs in alternate chapters, so that contemporary events will be found to run parallel. A word of praise must be given to the lucidity and order which reigns throughout. This has been secured by the logical sub-division of the matter, a very full table of contents, and well chosen running-titles . There are various appendices. The first of these enumerates the books of the Old Testament, classifying them according to subject-matter, and giving a brief account of each one’s scope. Then follow short dissertations on such pertinent themes as the Messianic prophecies, the language of the Bible, and the principal versions of the Sacred Scriptures. The great body of the work itself has been compiled chiefly from the text and notes of Haydock's Douai Bible; but for the part between the two Testaments—that is, from the end of the Books of the Maccabees—the Jewish historian Josephus is the one authority.