to
THE WIFE OF MY YOUTH
who
still abides with me

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Contents

BOOK FIRST

I. Into the Desert

II. Meeting of the Wise Men

III. The Athenian Speaks—Faith

IV. Speech of the Hindoo—Love

V. The Egyptian’s Story—Good Works

VI. The Joppa Gate

VII. Typical Characters at the Joppa Gate

VIII. Joseph and Mary Going to Bethlehem

IX. The Cave at Bethlehem

X. The Light in the Sky

XI. Christ is Born

XII. The Wise Men Arrive at Jerusalem

XIII. The Witnesses before Herod

XIV. The Wise Men Find the Child

BOOK SECOND

I. Jerusalem under the Romans

II. Ben-Hur and Messala

III. A Judean Home

IV. The Strange Things Ben-Hur Wants to Know

V. Rome and Israel—A Comparison

VI. The Accident to Gratus

VII. A Galley Slave

BOOK THIRD

I. Quintus Arrius Goes to Sea

II. At the Oar

III. Arrius and Ben-Hur on Deck

IV. “No. 60”

V. The Sea Fight

VI. Arrius Adopts Ben-Hur

BOOK FOURTH

I. Ben-Hur Returns East

II. On the Orontes

III. The Demand on Simonides

IV. Simonides and Esther

V. The Grove of Daphne

VI. The Mulberries of Daphne

VII. The Stadium in the Grove

VIII. The Fountain of Castalia

IX. The Chariot Race Discussed

X. Ben-Hur Hears of Christ

XI. The Wise Servant and his Daughter

XII. A Roman Orgie

XIII. A Driver for Ilderim’s Arabs

XIV. The Dowar in the Orchard or Palms

XV. Balthasar Impresses Ben-Hur

XVI. Christ is Coming—Balthasar

XVII. The Kingdom—Spiritual or Political?

BOOK FIFTH

I. Messala Doffs his Chaplet

II. Ilderim’s Arabs under the Yoke

III. The Arts of Cleopatra

IV. Messala on Guard

V. Ilderim and Ben-Hur Deliberate

VI. Training the Four

VII. Simonides Renders Account

VIII. Spiritual or Political?—Simonides Argues

IX. Esther and Ben-Hur

X. Posted for the Race

XI. Making the Wagers

XII. The Circus

XIII. The Start

XIV. The Race

XV. The Invitation of Iras

XVI. In the Palace of Idernee

BOOK SIXTH

I. The Tower of Antonia—Cell No. VI.

II. The Lepers

III. Jerusalem Again

IV. Ben-Hur at his Father’s Gate

V. The Tomb Above the King’s Garden

VI. A Trick of Pilate’s—The Combat

BOOK SEVENTH

I. Jerusalem Goes out to a Prophet

II. Nooning by the Pool—Iras

III. The Life of a Soul

IV. Ben-Hur Keeps Watch with Iras

V. At Bethabara

BOOK EIGHTH

I. Guests in the House of Hur

II. Ben-Hur Tells of the Nazarene

III. The Lepers Leave their Tomb

IV. The Miracle

V. Pilgrims to the Passover

VI. A Serpent of the Nile

VII. Ben-Hur Returns to Esther

VIII. Gethsemane—“Whom Seek Ye?”

IX. The Going to Calvary

X. The Crucifixion