Excerpt from A Companion to Biblical Studies: Being a Revised and Rewritten Edition of the Cambridge Companion to the BibleBotany) have been rewritten at a considerable expenditure Of time and labour.Professor Bevan was unable to find time to revise Chapter XVIII, so that it falls to the Editor to accept responsibility for it, but the fullest use has been made of the careful work which appeared in the Companion of 1892.Of the Maps attached to the volume six are new, while four which appeared in the former book have been revised.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.