The Life of the People in Biblical TimesJewish Publication Society of America, 1929 - 236 pages |
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... labor and in produce for the right to occupy a por- tion of the land . At any rate they were not primitive and had been in intimate contact with two great centers of civilization for a long while . Rude in a sense they still were for ...
... labor and in produce for the right to occupy a por- tion of the land . At any rate they were not primitive and had been in intimate contact with two great centers of civilization for a long while . Rude in a sense they still were for ...
Page 144
... labor . In this respect it is not unlike the Roman picture of the carefree husbandman plowing his ancestral acres with his own oxen . If the modern ideal , the Greek ideal and the Hebrew have anything in common it is the freedom from ...
... labor . In this respect it is not unlike the Roman picture of the carefree husbandman plowing his ancestral acres with his own oxen . If the modern ideal , the Greek ideal and the Hebrew have anything in common it is the freedom from ...
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... labor , unless it was agriculture , was semi - servile and correspondingly disesteemed . But there is no direct expression of this disesteem in the Bible . Ben Sira , writing in 200 B. C. E. , has as we shall see no high opinion of the ...
... labor , unless it was agriculture , was semi - servile and correspondingly disesteemed . But there is no direct expression of this disesteem in the Bible . Ben Sira , writing in 200 B. C. E. , has as we shall see no high opinion of the ...
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