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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/tn/000-Front-Cover-q85-377x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Images from Bible Symbols: The Choicest Passages of God’s Word put in the Fascinating Garb of Pictures by Frank Beard [1842 – 1905] and others; text prepared by Martha Van Marter [born 1839]; Chicago, 1908.
The book is a sort of rebus, in which pictures stand for words, and perhaps help people to remember phrases from the Bible, although not necessarily to understand them or to learn love and tolerance.
Title: Bible Symbols
Published by: The John A. Hertel Co.
City: Chicago, Toronto, Boston
Date: 1908
Total items: 37
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: The Good Shepherd]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/000-Frontispiece-The-Good-Shepherd-q75-145x200.jpg "[picture: The Good Shepherd]")
![[picture: The Pelican and the Swan]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/054-deuteronomy-xiv-detail-pelican-and-swan-q85-202x200.jpg "[picture: The Pelican and the Swan]")
The Pelican and the Swan taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. Actually most modern translations of the text have various owls here, not pelicans and swans, but in the 16th and early 17th centuries in England, the art of ancient hebrew ornithology was not universally taught in [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: The Raven]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/054-deuteronomy-xiv-detail-raven-q85-190x200.jpg "[picture: The Raven]")
The Raven taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 54.---But these are they of which ye shall not eat.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/054-deuteronomy-xiv-ye-shall-not-eat-q85-151x200.jpg "[picture: 54.---But these are they of which ye shall not eat.]")
54.—But these are they of which ye shall not eat.
The complete quotation, using the King James Bible of 1611, is as follows: [more...] [$]
![[picture: Full-page brown and green border with ivy creeper]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/182-full-page-ivy-border-green-and-brown-q75-149x200.jpg "[picture: Full-page brown and green border with ivy creeper]")
Full-page brown and green border with ivy creeper
This border looks like it’s made of wooden rods with ivy growing around it. The illusion is made stronger by the brown and green colouring. [more...] [$]
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