The Life of the People in Biblical TimesJewish Publication Society of America, 1929 - 236 pages |
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Page 64
... 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- memorial in the land . It added nothing whatever to the ...
... 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- memorial in the land . It added nothing whatever to the ...
Page 99
... occasion . Foreign merchants who had not as yet secured a protector or patron within the city would be likely to remain there for several days , would pitch their tents on the spot and exhibit their wares ; for plenty of people were ...
... occasion . Foreign merchants who had not as yet secured a protector or patron within the city would be likely to remain there for several days , would pitch their tents on the spot and exhibit their wares ; for plenty of people were ...
Page 109
... occasion into a fort , as the tragic episodes of later history proved . But the fort proper of the city lay elsewhere . It lay in the quarter of the city in which the king lived . The king's house was not a single structure , like ...
... occasion into a fort , as the tragic episodes of later history proved . But the fort proper of the city lay elsewhere . It lay in the quarter of the city in which the king lived . The king's house was not a single structure , like ...
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