Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets. S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       I. THE FALL OF THE ANGELS.

       II. ADAM.

       1. THE CREATION OF MAN.

       2. THE PRE-ADAMITES.

       III. EVE. 37

       IV. THE FALL OF MAN.

       V. ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE FALL.

       VI. CAIN AND ABEL.

       VII. THE DEATH OF ADAM.

       VIII. SETH.

       IX. CAINAN SON OF ENOS.

       X. ENOCH.

       1. THE TRANSLATION OF ENOCH.

       2. THE BOOK OF ENOCH.

       XI. THE GIANTS.

       XII. LAMECH.

       XIII. METHUSELAH.

       XIV. NOAH.

       XV. HEATHEN LEGENDS OF THE DELUGE.

       XVI. THE PLANTING OF THE VINE.

       XVII. THE SONS OF NOAH.

       XVIII. RELICS OF THE ARK.

       XIX. CERTAIN DESCENDANTS OF HAM.

       XX. SERUG.

       XXI. THE PROPHET EBER.

       XXII. THE PROPHET SALEH.

       XXIII. THE TOWER OF BABEL.

       XXIV. ABRAHAM. 296

       1. HIS YOUTH AND EARLY STRUGGLES.

       2. THE CALL OF ABRAHAM, AND THE VISIT TO EGYPT.

       3. THE WAR WITH THE KINGS.

       4. THE BIRTH OF ISHMAEL.

       5. THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH.

       6. THE BIRTH OF ISAAC.

       7. THE EXPULSION OF HAGAR AND ISHMAEL.

       8. THE STRIFE BETWEEN THE SHEPHERDS.

       9. THE GROVE IN BEER-SHEBA.

       10. THE OFFERING OF ISAAC. 326

       11. THE DEATH OF SARAH.

       12. THE MARRIAGE OF ISAAC.

       13. THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM.

       XXV. MELCHIZEDEK.

       XXVI. OF ISHMAEL AND THE WELL ZEMZEM.

       XXVII. ESAU AND JACOB.

       XXVIII. JOSEPH.

       XXIX. THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS.

       XXX. JOB.

       XXXI. JETHRO.

       XXXII. MOSES. 453

       1. ISRAEL IN EGYPT.

       2. THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF MOSES.

       3.