Excerpt from The Historic Origin of the Bible: A Handbook of Principal Facts From the Best Recent Authorities, German and English As in the case of the one incomparable Life whose gracious advent in the lowly Bethlehem is the beginning of an inspired Gospel, the human origin of the one incomparable Book might be expected to receive our earliest attention: its humble start ing-point in the dim past; What signs then attended it; what wise men welcomed it; the process of its growth in strength and moral beauty and in favor with God and with men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.