BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
A SKETCH OF LIBRARY HISTORY
FROM 3400 B.C. TO A.D. 150

by
ERNEST CUSHING RICHARDSON
LIBRARIAN OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY


PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1914

Preface, Table of Contents, and Introduction ("What is a Library?")

Chapter 1: The Babylonian Period

Chapter 2: The Patriarchal Period

Chapter3: The Egyptian Period

Chapter 4: The Exodus

Chapter 5: Palestine at the Conquest

Chapter 6: Period of the Judges

Chapter 7: Saul to the Captivity

Chapter 8: The Persian Period

Chapter 9: The Greek Period

Chapter 10: New Testament Times in Palestine

Chapter 11: Roman Libraries in Apostolical Times

Chapter 12: Post-Apostolical Roman Library Buildings

Chapter 13: The Bible Itself a Library

Chapter 14: Bibliography and Index