A History of the Literature of Ancient Israel from the Earliest Times to 135 B.C. |
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... indicate few and slight changes in the outline of Israel's literary history , then assumed as presenting the consensus of scholarship . Special acknowledgment of indebtedness is due to Rabbi Nathan Stern , Ph.D. , who has read and ...
... indicate few and slight changes in the outline of Israel's literary history , then assumed as presenting the consensus of scholarship . Special acknowledgment of indebtedness is due to Rabbi Nathan Stern , Ph.D. , who has read and ...
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... indicates a long period of previous develop- ment . See Winckler , History of Babylonia and Assyria ; King , History of Sumer and Akkad . reached , with walled cities inhabited by people familiar with B 1 CHAPTER I ISRAEL IN THE ANCIENT ...
... indicates a long period of previous develop- ment . See Winckler , History of Babylonia and Assyria ; King , History of Sumer and Akkad . reached , with walled cities inhabited by people familiar with B 1 CHAPTER I ISRAEL IN THE ANCIENT ...
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... indicating the places where it represented the proper name by printing in capital letters . The vowel sounds were probably originally a and e . The name Yahweh , from district , movements east of the Jordan offered an opportunity ISRAEL ...
... indicating the places where it represented the proper name by printing in capital letters . The vowel sounds were probably originally a and e . The name Yahweh , from district , movements east of the Jordan offered an opportunity ISRAEL ...
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... indicate something of Egyptian influence . While it is possible thus to determine with much certainty the original habitat of many of Israel's stories , such analysis does not necessarily indicate when the various elements became the ...
... indicate something of Egyptian influence . While it is possible thus to determine with much certainty the original habitat of many of Israel's stories , such analysis does not necessarily indicate when the various elements became the ...
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... indicated in the text , recognizing that Israel inherited or absorbed much from the closely interrelated world of which she was a part , but that her own national genius is entitled to the credit for those elements of spirit and thought ...
... indicated in the text , recognizing that Israel inherited or absorbed much from the closely interrelated world of which she was a part , but that her own national genius is entitled to the credit for those elements of spirit and thought ...
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Abimelech Ahaz Amos ancient Israel Assyria Babylon Babylonian Behold blessed book of Proverbs brought Canaan century B.C. chapter Chemosh children of Israel covenant daughter David death Deuteronomy earlier early earth Edom Egypt Egyptian Elijah Ephraimite evil exile Ezekiel father give gods hand heart heaven Hebrew Hosea Ibid iniquity Isaiah Jehovah Jehovah hath Jehovah of hosts Jehovah thy Jeremiah Jerusalem Jonathan Judah Judean history Judges king kingdom land later lines literary literature Lord mighty Moab mountains narrative nations Northern Israel oracles Philistines picture poem poetry priest priestly prophecy prophets prose Proverbs Psalms reign religion righteousness saith Jehovah Samaria Samuel Saul Semitic servant sheep Sisera Solomon song soul spirit story temple thereof thine thou hast thou shalt thought tribes unto Jehovah unto thee Utnapishtim verses vision voice wilderness wisdom worship writing Yahweh Zalmunna Zebah
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Page 146 - Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
Page 195 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 167 - Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Page 350 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 296 - THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam; in the day when they were created.
Page 103 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Page 120 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people ; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Page 75 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 297 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 179 - But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.