The Life of the People in Biblical TimesJewish Publication Society of America, 1929 - 236 pages |
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Page 49
... never wholly lost it . Not only did the Jews never expose their children as the Greeks and Romans and Egyptians did , but they did not practise the still more hideous custom of sacrificing them , as did their Canaanite kinsmen and ...
... never wholly lost it . Not only did the Jews never expose their children as the Greeks and Romans and Egyptians did , but they did not practise the still more hideous custom of sacrificing them , as did their Canaanite kinsmen and ...
Page 64
... never a word to say . The " marriage " itself was a festive occasion , a feast that marked the beginning of cohabitation . It had no special religious ceremony but it quickly gathered about itself a host of gay customs , some of them im ...
... never a word to say . The " marriage " itself was a festive occasion , a feast that marked the beginning of cohabitation . It had no special religious ceremony but it quickly gathered about itself a host of gay customs , some of them im ...
Page 170
... never to be a means of securing a livelihood . In the Greek world of the fifth century the Greek sophistes was in name and function almost exactly parallel to the hakam . But the sophist succeeded despite difficulties and objections in ...
... never to be a means of securing a livelihood . In the Greek world of the fifth century the Greek sophistes was in name and function almost exactly parallel to the hakam . But the sophist succeeded despite difficulties and objections in ...
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