Academical Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures and Antiquities: Genesis and ProphetsJ. Munroe, 1840 |
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... Hebrew writers had either received , or pretended to have received , supernatural communications or endowments of any kind . The origin of the error , which confounded the later books , in point of authority , with those of the Law , I ...
... Hebrew writers had either received , or pretended to have received , supernatural communications or endowments of any kind . The origin of the error , which confounded the later books , in point of authority , with those of the Law , I ...
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... Hebrew Scriptures . Meantime , after making nine thorough examinations of the whole New Testament , in as many successive years , with a constant view to this point , I feel some confi- dence in expressing my conviction , that it pre ...
... Hebrew Scriptures . Meantime , after making nine thorough examinations of the whole New Testament , in as many successive years , with a constant view to this point , I feel some confi- dence in expressing my conviction , that it pre ...
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... HEBREW POETRY . ― - - Hebrew Names of a Poem . Books considered Poetical by the Modern Jews . Characteristics of Poetical Composition in gen- eral , as to Spirit and Form . - Difficulty of the Investigation respecting the Form of Hebrew ...
... HEBREW POETRY . ― - - Hebrew Names of a Poem . Books considered Poetical by the Modern Jews . Characteristics of Poetical Composition in gen- eral , as to Spirit and Form . - Difficulty of the Investigation respecting the Form of Hebrew ...
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... the Creation , and passing down the lines of the Hebrew patriarchs , judges , and kings , the four great ancient monarchies , and the arrived at the time of the call of Abraham , 10 [ LECT . DESIGN AND SOURCES OF GENESIS .
... the Creation , and passing down the lines of the Hebrew patriarchs , judges , and kings , the four great ancient monarchies , and the arrived at the time of the call of Abraham , 10 [ LECT . DESIGN AND SOURCES OF GENESIS .
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... Hebrews of Moses ' time were so situated as to be best ac- quainted , and most likely to have been infected . If , under ... Hebrew line . That he could refer to Chaldea for such doctrines , we are unable , in the absence of historical ...
... Hebrews of Moses ' time were so situated as to be best ac- quainted , and most likely to have been infected . If , under ... Hebrew line . That he could refer to Chaldea for such doctrines , we are unable , in the absence of historical ...
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Abimelech Abraham Amos ancient appears argument authority book of Joshua book of Judges book of Kings books of Samuel called Canaan Canaanites chapter character circumstances comp composition connexion David death Deity descended Deut divine Egypt Esau fact father Genesis Gilgal hand Hebrew hundred inhabitants instance interpretation Isaac Israel Israelites Jacob Jehovah Jephthah Jeroboam Jewish Jews Joseph Josephus Josh Joshua Judah Judges king land language Later Prophets Lord means miraculous Mizpeh Moses narrative nation natural Numb opinion origin passage Philistines poetry portion posterity present priest probable Psalm purpose question race reason record reference reign remark represented respecting Samuel Saul Saul's sense Septuagint Shechem statement supernatural supposed territory thee thing thou tion tradition tribe of Benjamin tribes unto verse words writer xviii xxvi
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Page 404 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 107 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, ° before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Page 80 - And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns : and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Page 181 - And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Page 319 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard : My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 289 - Moreover the Lord will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines : and to-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the Lord also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
Page 210 - In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Page 196 - And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; that he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Page 283 - Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
Page 151 - And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein : only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.