1902 J B. ROTHERHAM. The Emphasized Bible. Near Fine First Edition. Slavery Mary's at Islington where the

Mary's at Islington where the Methodist sympathizer

Polluted children soon receiv'd their birth

justice to the extortioner & cheat

The Gospel a Joyful Sound

1902 J B. ROTHERHAM. The Emphasized Bible. Near Fine First Edition. Slavery Mary's at Islington where theA rather rare and superbly preserved first complete edition of of Rotherham's landmark "Emphasized" Bible. Rotherham's translation of the Bible was innovative for its use of what he called, "emphatic idiom," and for its diacritical marks designed to bring out the nuances of the underlying Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts. Rotherham was a Bible scholar and minister of the Churches of Christ, who described his goal as "placing the reader of the present