The Works of George A. Barton (15 vols.)

The life of Jesus Christ is the most important event in the religious history of mankind. The significance of it is eternal. Nowhere else has God so revealed his nature. How should one approach the task of writing an account of it? George A. Barton belongs to the historical school, and seeks to use the knowledge of the composition and dates of the Gospels which has been gained through modern study in accordance with the methods of modern historical research. He divides Jesus of Nazareth: A Biography into six parts:

• Things to Be Known Beforehand
• The Life of Jesus before His Ministry
• The Ministry of Jesus in Galilee
• The Peræn Ministry of Jesus
• Jesus Avoiding His Enemies
• The Passion and Resurrection

The lectures contained in The Heart of the Christian Message were delivered to the Society of Friends of Massachusetts, and then a portion of them were published as a series in the Friends' Quarterly Examiner. George A. Barton then revised them for publication in book-form. The lectures trace the growth of Christian doctrine and polity. Included are:

• The Message of Christ
• The Christian Message According to Paul
• The Christian Message in the Johannine Writings
• The Christian Message in the Eastern Church
• The Christian Message in the Western Church
• The Christian Message According to the Reformers
• The Christian Message According to the Early Friends
• The Christian Message for the Twentieth Century

A Year's Wandering in Bible Lands is George A. Barton's memoir of traveling through the Bible lands during the year 1902. Accompanying his travelogue is over 100 black and white photographs of the people and places he encountered while traveling on horseback. Reading A Year's Wandering is like visiting the Holy Land with Dr. Barton as a guide, and at each place hearing his account and explanations of its connection with the men and events of Bible history.

Designed as a college textbook, George A. Barton presents a broad survey of world religions. Studies on the religions of Babylonia and Assyria, the Ancient Hebrews, Judaism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Vedas, Buddhism and Jainism, Hinduism, and more, are included. A great reference for quickly grasping the major tenets of the world's religions throughout history, this volume also includes Barton's essay "The Unfolding of the Idea of God in the Religions of the World."

In The Religion of Israel, George A. Barton presents the development of Israel's religion from its primitive Semitic beginnings to the coming of Christ. Barton also explores the development of the priesthood, and the belief in angels and demons.

Dr. Barton vividly traces the course of Semitic evolution through the weary centuries which led from primitiveness to civilization. The book contains much valuable information in regard to the sociological literature and theories of the times, and is altogether an important and scholarly contribution to our knowledge of those vague periods.

The 132 tablets pictured in this volume are from the time of the dynasty of Agade and earlier periods. They mostly consist of the payrolls, contracts, receipts, etc., which reflect the economic life of ancient Babylonia. One group contains a series of transactions of Nippur merchants. George A. Barton provides gives a translation of six of the tablets, a list of the proper names in the collection, autographs of all the tablets, and 18 photographic views.

In this volume there are published 12 religious texts belonging to the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Photographs of some of the inscriptions are included, together with Barton's copies, transliteration, translation, and discussion of them.

In the following pages the reader will find brief sketches of Old Testament ideas and institutions, mingled with character studies of Old Testament heroes. In each case the Christian truth, of which the sketch presents a type or parable, is briefly set forth in such a way that a reader may enjoy its religious significance.

Semitic and Hamitic Origins: Social and Religious is a revision of A Sketch of Semitic Origins: Social and Religious. After 30 more years of continuous research, Barton has revised his previous theories and put together the results in this newer work.

This essay on Babylonian creation stories first appeared in The American Journal of Theology in 1917.

The 117 texts presented in this volume were the first of the Haverford Library Collection of cuneiform tablets to be published. The whole class of tablets, some 400 of them, are of a business and administrative character, and shed light on the economic environment of an ancient people such as can be made of no other people of antiquity known to us.

The 94 texts presented in this volume were the first of the Haverford Library Collection of cuneiform tablets to be published. The whole class of tablets, some 400 of them, are of a business and administrative character, and shed light on the economic environment of an ancient people such as can be made of no other people of antiquity known to us.

The 184 texts presented in this volume were the first of the Haverford Library Collection of cuneiform tablets to be published. The whole class of tablets, some 400 of them, are of a business and administrative character, and shed light on the economic environment of an ancient people such as can be made of no other people of antiquity known to us.

Oriental Studies contains a selection of papers read before the Oriental Club of Philadelphia between the years 1888–1894. Along with George A. Barton's "Native Israelitish Deities," this volume includes "Who Were the Ancient Ethiopians," by W. Max Müller, "A Legal Document of Babylonia," by Morris Jastrow, and 11 more addresses.