STRANGEST BIBLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 11

STRANGEST BIBLE.

WRITTEN IN RHYME. AUCTION SALE CURIOSITY. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, April 8. The world's strangest Bible—written in verse 200 years ago and illustrated with pen and ink drawings—was sold lor £12 at Sotheby's sale room, London, W., this week. Abraham Sheares had always wanted to rewrite the Scriptures in rhyme, and when he did, he put in the company of the Scriptural characters such people as Guy Fawkes. In the Garden of Eden, as Abraham Sheares imagined it, under his drawing of the serpant entwined round the apple tree, he wrote in his own peculiar spelling:— I "Adam was in Eden, garden by name, in a very happy cause, before the temptation came. Like to a serpin' twisted up y tree, and with a apele ho tempted Eve as you may plainly see." And this is the story of Lot's wife who was turned into a pillar of salt. "Sune after see what did befall, a judgment on Lot's wife. For hankering are lukeing back, she lost her tender life. It might be for her treasures there then borning in the flame. A pillar ot i*alt she was then, God's judgment on her came." 1