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Title: The Astronomy of the Bible
An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References
of Holy Scripture

Author: E. Walter Maunder

Release Date: April 8, 2009 [EBook #28536]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Notes: Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been
left as in the original. Words italicized in the original are surrounded
by _underscores_. Characters superscripted in the original are enclosed
in {braces}. In this text, in words translated from Hebrew, ` represents
an aleph, and ' represents an ayin. Some typographical and punctuation
errors have been corrected. A complete list follows the text.

There are diacritic accents in the original. In this text, they are
represented as follows:

[=a] = "a" with a macron [)e] = "e" with a breve
[=e] = "e" with a macron [vs] = "s" with a caron
[=i] = "i" with a macron [vS] = "S" with a caron
[=o] = "o" with a macron [H.] = "H" with an underdot
[=u] = "u" with a macron [h.] = "h" with an underdot

THE ASTRONOMY
OF THE BIBLE

[Illustration: _From the Painting by Sir Edward Burne-Jones in the
Birmingham Art Gallery._

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

"We have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him."

[_Frontispiece._]

THE ASTRONOMY
OF THE BIBLE

AN ELEMENTARY COMMENTARY ON THE
ASTRONOMICAL REFERENCES
OF HOLY SCRIPTURE

BY
E. WALTER MAUNDER, F.R.A.S.

AUTHOR OF
'THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH: ITS HISTORY AND WORK,'
AND 'ASTRONOMY WITHOUT A TELESCOPE'

_WITH THIRTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS_

NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY

RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

To

MY WIFE

My helper in this Book
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