The Life of the People in Biblical TimesJewish Publication Society of America, 1929 - 236 pages |
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Page 49
... Jewish custom . It may well be that individual Jews occa- sionally did this dreadful thing - individual Jews did . not scruple at all times to disregard their national and religious laws , even those that prohibited the three ...
... Jewish custom . It may well be that individual Jews occa- sionally did this dreadful thing - individual Jews did . not scruple at all times to disregard their national and religious laws , even those that prohibited the three ...
Page 116
... Jewish " characteristics , the nose , is not Jewish at all . Most Jews do not have it and other national groups have it more commonly than Jews . Among these groups are the Armenians , and by a combination of several guesses , it has ...
... Jewish " characteristics , the nose , is not Jewish at all . Most Jews do not have it and other national groups have it more commonly than Jews . Among these groups are the Armenians , and by a combination of several guesses , it has ...
Page 117
... Jews as worshippers of the same God and intermarrying with them . A few centuries later the prophet flings in the face of an arrogant Judah its Hittite mother and its Amorite father . So , if the Hittite nose is the " Jewish " nose , it ...
... Jews as worshippers of the same God and intermarrying with them . A few centuries later the prophet flings in the face of an arrogant Judah its Hittite mother and its Amorite father . So , if the Hittite nose is the " Jewish " nose , it ...
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