A History of the Literature of Ancient Israel from the Earliest Times to 135 B.C.Macmillan, 1912 - 392 pages |
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... speaking : For a man have I slain for my wounding , And a youth for my striking . If sevenfold Cain shall sure be avenged , Then Lamech seventy and seven.o One would like to feel certain that the charming little " Song of the Well " can ...
... speaking : For a man have I slain for my wounding , And a youth for my striking . If sevenfold Cain shall sure be avenged , Then Lamech seventy and seven.o One would like to feel certain that the charming little " Song of the Well " can ...
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... speak in proverbs say , " indicates the existence of a recognized class of composers and reciters of such poems . Their presence would facilitate long oral transmission , as it did , many centuries later , among the Arabian Semites ...
... speak in proverbs say , " indicates the existence of a recognized class of composers and reciters of such poems . Their presence would facilitate long oral transmission , as it did , many centuries later , among the Arabian Semites ...
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... speaking with sighs . The feet of my goddess I kiss imploringly ( ? ) , 1 This version is taken from the tomb of the priest Neferhôtep . Erman , Life in Ancient Egypt , p . 387 . To the ... speak with 28 THE LITERATURE OF ANCIENT ISRAEL.
... speaking with sighs . The feet of my goddess I kiss imploringly ( ? ) , 1 This version is taken from the tomb of the priest Neferhôtep . Erman , Life in Ancient Egypt , p . 387 . To the ... speak with 28 THE LITERATURE OF ANCIENT ISRAEL.
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Henry Thatcher Fowler. To the known or unknown god do I speak with sighs , To the known or unknown goddess do I speak with sighs . O lord , look upon me , accept my lament , O goddess , look upon me , accept my lament . O known or ...
Henry Thatcher Fowler. To the known or unknown god do I speak with sighs , To the known or unknown goddess do I speak with sighs . O lord , look upon me , accept my lament , O goddess , look upon me , accept my lament . O known or ...
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... speaking of the King James version , " The men who made our translation did not attempt to arrange the lines in a different form from the prose of the rest of the book . The result has been in English to produce a kind of writing unique ...
... speaking of the King James version , " The men who made our translation did not attempt to arrange the lines in a different form from the prose of the rest of the book . The result has been in English to produce a kind of writing unique ...
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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.