The ''By-paths of Bible Knowledge'' series was a collection of books connected with Bible study. History, geography, archaeology, and other topics related to the Bible were presented by various experts. The series was published in London from 1883 by the

Religious Tract Society The Religious Tract Society was a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799 and known for publishing a variety of popular religious and quasi-religious texts in the 19th century. The society engaged in charity as well as commerci ...

Titles in the series

* by the Rev. James King; * by Margaret Elise Harkness * by

A. H. Sayce The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (25 September 18454 February 1933) was a pioneer British Assyriology, Assyriologist and linguistics, linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919. He was abl ...

; * by the Rev. James King *Two different volumes in the series were assigned the number 5. by

E. A. Wallis Budge Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 185723 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips ...

* by

Selah Merrill Selah Merrill (May 2, 1837 – January 22, 1909) was an American Congregationalist clergyman. He served as the American consul in Jerusalem. Biography Selah Merrill was born in Canton Centre, Connecticut on May 2, 1837, and died on January 22, ...

; * by Sir J. W. Dawson * by A. H. Sayce * by E. A. Wallis Budge * by Sir J. Risdon Bennett; * by William H. Groser * by H. Chichester Hart * by A. H. Sayce * by A. H. Sayce * by J. T. Wood * by A. H. Drysdale * by A. H. Sayce, with illustrations from photographs by

Flinders Petrie Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( – ), commonly known as simply Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egypt ...

* by the Rev. H. G. Tomkins * by A. H. Sayce * by

Joseph Edkins Joseph Edkins (19 December 1823 – 23 April 1905) was a British Protestant missionary who spent 57 years in China, 30 of them in Beijing. As a Sinologue, he specialised in Chinese religions. He was also a linguist, a translator, and a philolog ...

* by G. C. Williamson * by the Rev. C. G. K. Gillespie * by William Knight * by A. H. Sayce;

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