That Lawsuit Against the Bible

Published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI, 1940

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Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA)

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This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginnning bumping and wear. There are two tiny holes to the top front spine joint. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has edge wear, bumping, rubbing, nicking, toning / darkening and several edge tears. "In the mid-1920s, Rimmer offered $100 to anybody who could prove that the Bible was not inerrant. Although he received an enormous number of responses, he accepted none as demonstrating a biblical error to his satisfaction. On two occasions claimants took Rimmer to court. The first was in 1929 when a retired army colonel challenged the story of God feeding the children of Israel in the wilderness by sending so many quail that they were piled up to two cubits high for a days journey around the camp, which he calculated would require over 29x1012 quails (or over 12 million per Israelite). However, the judge, apparently reasoning that Moses was a more reliable witness than the colonel, ruled against him. In 1939, the Research Science Bureau upped the offer to $1000. " (from Wikipedia).…

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Title
That Lawsuit Against the Bible
Author
Rimmer, Harry
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI
Publication year
1940
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition; 1st Printing.

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S. Howlett-West Books was established in 1996, but the owner, Stephanie has been in the book business for over 25 years. Besides her full time work as a book dealer/compiler of price guides, she writes articles on the subject of Science Fiction for several trade magazines. She is a collector and reader of first edition science fiction in her spare time.

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