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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 Gier Eagle and the Cormorant]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/054-deuteronomy-xiv-detail-gier-eagle-and-cormorant-q85-234x200.jpg "[picture: The Gier Eagle and the Cormorant]")
The Gier Eagle and the Cormorant
The Gier Eagle and the Cormorant taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Initial Letter I With Art Nouveau Swirls]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/182-initial-letter-i-q75-167x200.jpg "[picture: Initial Letter I With Art Nouveau Swirls]")
Initial Letter I With Art Nouveau Swirls
This initial letter was used in at least two other books that i found online; i scanned this one from Beard’s “Bible Symbols” (1908). [$]
![[picture: The Owl and the Night Hawk]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/054-deuteronomy-xiv-detail-owl-and-night-hawk-q85-182x200.jpg "[picture: The Owl and the Night Hawk]")
The Owl and the Night Hawk taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Fish of the sea, from p. 69]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/069-detail-7-fish-of-the-sea-q85-301x200.jpg "[picture: Fish of the sea, from p. 69]")
![[picture: Hands from p. 69]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/069-detail-1-works-of-thy-hands-q85-262x200.jpg "[picture: Hands from p. 69]")
