Book of Yahweh (the Yahwist Bible)

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Iliad and the Odyssey probably were composed hundreds of years before the first beginnings of the Old Testa ment.* Yet Matthew Arnold says Homer was rapid, clear, plain, and direct in thought and expression, and eminently noble. And Dr. Eliot says in The Harvard Classics that artisti cally, in spite of their early date, they are the product of a mature art, and stand at the head of the literature of Greece and of the Epic poetry of the world.