Part 2 (2/2)

What date is coiven to this event?

What was the moral cause of the flood?

What was its extent?

What was its purpose in the plan of God?

What new spirit took possession of men soon after the flood?

To what results did this lead?

What was the relation of this fact to the confusion of tongues?

What evidences of these reat centers of national life in the Oriental world?

What city became the center of commercial life?

To what race did the earliest e?

What was the most important journey, in its results, in all history?

What three causes are given for this iousdid Abraham's descendants remain in Palestine?

In what part of the country did they live?

What were their relations with the native peoples in Palestine?

What is meant by ”the sojourn?”

What was its immediate cause?

What four providential results ca was the time of the sojourn?

Hoere the Israelites protected froh this sojourn?

What was the effect of the sojourn upon their civilization?

Subjects for Special Papers

THE PYRAMIDS

THE CITY OF BABYLON

THE GREAT RACES

TRADITIONS OF THE DELUGE

THE CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM

EGYPT IN THE TIME OF JOSEPH

FOOTNOTES:

[A] See Geikie's _Hours with the Bible_, vol 1, chap xiii; _Bible Commentary_, note at the end of Gen 8

[B] Froiven to the sojourn in Egypt, the shorter period, froenerally assumed But it is almost impossible that seventy people could becoenerations by natural increase alone

Moreover, the genealogy of Joshua (1 Chron 7 22-27) gives either ten or eleven generations to this period It is probable that the other tables name only sufficient links to show the line, and oenerations This was frequently the case with Jewish records (See the genealogy of Jesus Christ in Matt 1, where several naan about 1900 B C, and the call of Abrahaive in the text the usual chronology