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Moses and the Israelites

Philip II; Bible

Consider the Bible's Old Testament as a literary masterpiece dramatized by paintings, music, and sculpture

Examine the Old Testament's The Book of Proverbs and other books through a literary lens

The Holy Bible opened to the book of Genesis (1663). This first printing of the Holy Bible in the American colonies is Christian missionary John Eliot's translation into Massachuset (also known as Wampanoag), an Algonquian language.

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Moses and the Israelites

Philip II; Bible

The Holy Bible opened to the book of Genesis (1663). This first printing of the Holy Bible in the American colonies is Christian missionary John Eliot's translation into Massachuset (also known as Wampanoag), an Algonquian language.

Bury Bible illuminated manuscript

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Consider the Bible's Old Testament as a literary masterpiece dramatized by paintings, music, and sculpture

Examine the Old Testament's The Book of Proverbs and other books through a literary lens

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