Hebrew Records: An Historical Enquirty Concerning the Age, Authorship, and Authority of the Old TestamentJohn Chapman, 1850 - 300 pages |
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... copies used by the Jews in the time of Josephus , they were written by their author * Tomline's Elements of Christian Theology , vol . 1 , p . 3 . " It is not known when this division took place , but probably it was first Moses ...
... copies used by the Jews in the time of Josephus , they were written by their author * Tomline's Elements of Christian Theology , vol . 1 , p . 3 . " It is not known when this division took place , but probably it was first Moses ...
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... copies read in the Jewish Synagogues . These five books are now gene- rally known by the name of the Pentateuch . " As the pub- lic copies read in the Synagogues are undoubtedly more likely , than the private copies , to retain the ...
... copies read in the Jewish Synagogues . These five books are now gene- rally known by the name of the Pentateuch . " As the pub- lic copies read in the Synagogues are undoubtedly more likely , than the private copies , to retain the ...
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... copies which were publicly used in the Synagogues , were divided into 17 books only , though in all the versions which have been made of them , whether Greek , Latin , or in the modern languages of Europe , the number of books has been ...
... copies which were publicly used in the Synagogues , were divided into 17 books only , though in all the versions which have been made of them , whether Greek , Latin , or in the modern languages of Europe , the number of books has been ...
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... copies . As the books of Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers and Deuteronomy are admitted to have formed but one book in the Hebrew Canon , it is unnecessary to apply the present argument to them : but it is remarkable that the ...
... copies . As the books of Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers and Deuteronomy are admitted to have formed but one book in the Hebrew Canon , it is unnecessary to apply the present argument to them : but it is remarkable that the ...
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... copied them . The next instance of repetition is still more striking , be- cause we fall into an inevitable dilemma , in endeavouring to explain it . The 36th chapter of Genesis contains a separate and complete account of the genealogy ...
... copied them . The next instance of repetition is still more striking , be- cause we fall into an inevitable dilemma , in endeavouring to explain it . The 36th chapter of Genesis contains a separate and complete account of the genealogy ...
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Abraham afterwards ancient Babylon Babylonish captivity Bishop Patrick book of Joshua book of Judges book of Samuel books of Chronicles books of Kings called Canaan Canaanites Chaldee CHAP chapter characters children of Israel Christ Christian commanded compiled copy covenant David Deuteronomy dialect Egypt Egyptian enquiry evidence Exodus Ezra fact Family Bible father Genesis Greek Hebrew language Hebron Hieroglyphics hundred ideagraphic inference Israelites Israelitish Jacob Jerusalem Jewish Jews Jordan Judah land of Canaan later law of Moses letters Lord thy mentioned mode narrative nations Nehemiah observed occur Old Testament original passage Pentateuch priests probably prophet Psalms records reign remarkable rendered sacred Samaritan Saul Scriptures second book servant shew Solomon spake spoken supposed Syrian tables of stone Targum thee thou shalt translation tribes unto this day verse vowel words written wrote δὲ καὶ τὴν
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Page 101 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 25 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies: is not this written in the book of Jasher ? so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Page 94 - And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed : I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Page 58 - There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Page 97 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Page 130 - And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Page 110 - The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 111 - And they sat down to eat bread : and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Page 165 - Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Page 94 - And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died : his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.