Sociological Study of the BibleUniversity of Chicago Press, 1912 - 308 pages |
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Page xviii
... clans , with the Homeric heroes , and this constituted the highest title to prestige in the Greek world . . . . One of the most serious impediments blocking the way to a scientific examination of early Greece [ by the Greek historians ...
... clans , with the Homeric heroes , and this constituted the highest title to prestige in the Greek world . . . . One of the most serious impediments blocking the way to a scientific examination of early Greece [ by the Greek historians ...
Page xxiv
... clans or tribes which constituted the invading army . This view is based on the first six books of the Old Testa- ment known as the Hexateuch , which comprise the titles from Genesis through Joshua . The traditional view stated in a ...
... clans or tribes which constituted the invading army . This view is based on the first six books of the Old Testa- ment known as the Hexateuch , which comprise the titles from Genesis through Joshua . The traditional view stated in a ...
Page xxv
... clans which had no common organization . These clans , coming in from the desert , merely succeeded in planting them- selves here and there in the highlands of Judah , Ephraim , and Gilead . They did not drive out nor annihilate the ...
... clans which had no common organization . These clans , coming in from the desert , merely succeeded in planting them- selves here and there in the highlands of Judah , Ephraim , and Gilead . They did not drive out nor annihilate the ...
Page xxvii
... clan depends upon the good treatment of its individual members . Hence , the idea of " brotherhood " stands in the ... clans of Arabia , and other unsettled peoples . Now , the Israelites , prior to the invasion of Canaan , were a ...
... clan depends upon the good treatment of its individual members . Hence , the idea of " brotherhood " stands in the ... clans of Arabia , and other unsettled peoples . Now , the Israelites , prior to the invasion of Canaan , were a ...
Page xxviii
... clan into sharp conflict . A great struggle was precipitated over the subject of mishpat . " What are good law and good morals ? " The conflict ulti- mately came to a center about the question whether Yahweh should be worshiped in the ...
... clan into sharp conflict . A great struggle was precipitated over the subject of mishpat . " What are good law and good morals ? " The conflict ulti- mately came to a center about the question whether Yahweh should be worshiped in the ...
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Page 162 - Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border, ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near? that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches...
Page 42 - The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 143 - And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him; and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Page 50 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 155 - Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead ; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord : and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
Page 36 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things : for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you : and the land is defiled : therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Page 222 - And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord...
Page 80 - I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God...
Page 162 - WOE to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds ! When the morning is light, they practise it, Because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; And houses, and take them away: So they oppress a man and his house, Even a man and his heritage.
Page 280 - It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the sacraments in the congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the congregation, to call and send ministers into the Lord's vineyard.