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| | Appleton, Jesse |
 | | Philadelphia, 1898; T. Nicol, Recent Arrhmolopy and the Bible, London, 1899; a useful book is H. Hilprecht, Explorations in Bible Lands, Philadelphia, 1903; the various histories of Israel by Wellhausen, Stade, Kittel, and others are also important. |
 | | Some of the problems of architecture were altered with the advent of Christianit3, as it had now to build churches instead of temples, one of the most important tasks ever laid upon architecture, and in fact for many centuries almost the only important one. |
 | | That the semicircular or apsidal form finally prevailed is due partly to acoustic considerations--the bishop preached from his throne-and partly to the esthetic motive which made this form a popular one in the architecture of the imperial period. |
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