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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 eagle's Nest, from the book of Deuteronomy ch. 32 v. 11]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/055-deuteronomy-xxxii-11-detail-2-eagles-nest-q75-288x200.jpg "[picture: The eagle's Nest, from the book of Deuteronomy ch. 32 v. 11]")
The eagle’s Nest, from the book of Deuteronomy ch. 32 v. 11
A bird’s nest, supposedly an eagle’s nest, illustrating part of the Biblical book of Deuteronomy chapter 32 verses 11 and 12. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Do not eat the bat.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/054-deuteronomy-xiv-detail-bat-q85-446x200.jpg "[picture: Do not eat the bat.]")
The bat, taken from an illustration of the birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. Yes, I know it’s not a bird, I didn’t write the Bible! [more...] [$]
![[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 field, from p. 69]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/069-detail-5-the-field-q85-352x200.jpg "[picture: The field, from p. 69]")
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![[picture: Money Chest: The Treasury]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/183-money-chest-284x200.jpg "[picture: Money Chest: The Treasury]")
