The Life of the People in Biblical TimesJewish Publication Society of America, 1929 - 236 pages |
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Page 78
... common . It is of course true that he is speaking of the city , of Jerusalem . We do not know just how far " common script " was really common elsewhere . Isaiah in the same passages dis- tinguishes between the learned who can read and ...
... common . It is of course true that he is speaking of the city , of Jerusalem . We do not know just how far " common script " was really common elsewhere . Isaiah in the same passages dis- tinguishes between the learned who can read and ...
Page 120
... common . We might indeed have drawn the oppo- site inference . Greek poets speak of golden - haired or tawny - haired gods and heroes , and it is often asserted that this proves such a color to have been rare and a mark of high birth ...
... common . We might indeed have drawn the oppo- site inference . Greek poets speak of golden - haired or tawny - haired gods and heroes , and it is often asserted that this proves such a color to have been rare and a mark of high birth ...
Page 134
... common dress of the poor , their clothes would form the only quite dark spots in the picture a full market place would have presented . The rest of the picture was very different . Instead of a general aspect of soberness which crowded ...
... common dress of the poor , their clothes would form the only quite dark spots in the picture a full market place would have presented . The rest of the picture was very different . Instead of a general aspect of soberness which crowded ...
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ancient animals apparently became Ben Sira Bible biblical bride called Canaan Canaanites centuries certainly clothing color common course Covenant Covenanters craft customs dancing daughters David desert Deuteronomy divine doubtless dreams dress Egypt ephod existed fact father festivals foreign frequently garment gates Greek Hauran Hebrew Hittite household husband imagine Israel Israelites Iturea Jeroboam II Jerusalem Jewish Jews Joppa Jordan Judah Judea king labor land later Levites linen lived Lord marriage matter meal means Mediterranean mentioned merchants merely mind modern mother nations never occasion ordinary Palestine perhaps person picture played poetry practice priests probably prophet purpose reason religious remember ritual Roman royal Samaria scarcely seems shaatnez Shechem Sira slaves society Song story stranger streets suppose sure talmudic tents things thou tion true wall wealth wife wives woman women wool word