聖經的故事（簡體書）

作者：（美國） 房龍（Hendrik Willem Van Loon）

《圣經的故事:英文》由中國國際廣播出版社出版。

Chapter1 A Literary Inheritance
Chapter2 Creation
Chapter3 The Pioneers
Chapter4 Further Westward
Chapter5 A Home in Egypt
Chapter6 The Escape from Slavery
Chapter7 Wanderingin the Wilderness
Chapter8 Finding New Pastures
Chapter9 The Conquest of Canaan
Chapter10 The Story of Ruth
Chapter11 A Jewish Kingdom
Chapter12 Civil War
Chapter13 The Warning of the Prophets
Chapter14 Downfall and Exile
Chapter15 The Return Home
Chapter16 The Miscellaneous Books
Chapter17 The Coming of the Greeks
Chapter18 Judaea,a Greek Province
Chapter19 Revolution and Independence
Chapter20 The Birth of Jesus
Chapter21 John the Baptist
Chapter22 The Childhood of Jesus
Chapter23 The Disaples
Chapter24 The New Teacher
Chapter25 The Old Enemies
Chapter26 The Death of Jesus
Chapter27 The Strength of an Idea
Chapter28 The Triumph of an Idea
Chapter29 The Established Church

It was really a pleasant home and here the son of Abraham and Sarah was born. His parents called him Isaac, which means "laughter," for surely it was happiness to have an heir when both the father and the mother had given up all hope.
At a matter of fact, during the years of waiting, when it seemed that there would be no descendants,Abraham had taken unto himself a second wife.This was according to the custom of the time and the country. Even to-day, many people in Asia and Africa, who belong to the Mohammedan religion, are allowed to have two or three wives.
The second wife of Abraham was not a Jewess.She was an Egyptian slave girl,named Hagar.Sarah,quite naturally, did not like her at all, and when Hagar had become the mother of a boy, who was called Ishmael, Sarah began to hate the other woman and tried to destroy her.
Of course, it was natural for Ishmael and his halfbrother to play together on the farm. Most likely at times they quarrelled, and I have no doubt but that sometimes they engaged in a merry fight.