THE

BIBLE CLASS ASSISTANT,

OR

SCRIPTURAL GUIDE FOR SUNDAY SCHOOLS:

BEING

SKETCHES OF THE ANTIQUITIES, CUSTOMS, AND
MANNERS OF THE JEWS,

IN ILLUSTRATION OF SCRIPTURE.

DESIGNED FOR

THE USE OF TEACHERS, BIBLE CLASSES, AND THE
HIGHER CLASSES IN SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Br THOMAS B. THAYER.

BOSTON:

THOMAS WHITTEMORE.

BX

9731
743

1840a
cop.1

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by THOMAS WHITTE MORE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED BY

FOLSOM, WELLS, AND THURSTON.

9510
35-1

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER.

I. Books and Authors of the Old Testament.

-Historical Books

II. Books and Authors of the Old Testament:

Continued. - Poetical and Prophetical

Books .

III. Books of the New Testament, and their

V. The Catholic Epistles and their Authors

VI. Description of Palestine

VII. Agriculture, &c., of the Jews

VIII. Dwellings and Domestic Affairs

IX. Meals and Entertainments

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