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Title: Notes, critical, illustrative, and practical, on the book of Job, with a new translation and an introductory dissertation by Albert Barnes. Printed from the author's rev. ed., with a pref. by E. Henderson
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Barnes, Albert, 1798-1870
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: London Gall & Inglis
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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view toremark, that the land of Edom, near which Job is supposed to havelived, contains at this day some of the most wonderful sepulchralmonuments of the world, Comp. notes on Isa. xvi. 1. The followingengravings, from Laborde, will give an illustration of those tombs. Itis true that those sepulchres are of a much later date than the time ofJob, nor could the art of sepulture in his time have been such as thesespecimens exhibit; but it is interesting to find such illustrations ofthe general idea in the very region where Job lived. The engravingon the following leaf shows the facade of a tomb in Petra, in Idumea,and will illustrate the magnificence which was sometimes shown intheir structure. That on the next page will illustrate the interiorof such tombs. It is also from Petra. The engraving prefixed asfrontispiece shows the entrances to several of those tombs excavatedin the side of the rocks. Such sepulchres abound in Persia, and onthe banks of the Nile in Egjpt opposite to Thebes.
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