The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measuresFor Thomas and Andrews, Boston, and Isaiah Thomas, Jun., Worcester, 1809 |
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... JEWS , WITH A TABLE OF THE JEWISH COINS , WEIGHTS AND MEASURES . TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM WHISTON , A. M. LATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE . PRINTED AT STRINGFIELD , FOR ISAIAH THOMAS , Jun . SOLD ALSO BY THOMAS ...
... JEWS , WITH A TABLE OF THE JEWISH COINS , WEIGHTS AND MEASURES . TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM WHISTON , A. M. LATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE . PRINTED AT STRINGFIELD , FOR ISAIAH THOMAS , Jun . SOLD ALSO BY THOMAS ...
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... Jews had with the Romans , and knew myself its particu lar actions , and what conclusion it had , I was forced to give the his- tory of it , because I saw that others perverted the truth of those ac tions in their writings . 2. Now I ...
... Jews had with the Romans , and knew myself its particu lar actions , and what conclusion it had , I was forced to give the his- tory of it , because I saw that others perverted the truth of those ac tions in their writings . 2. Now I ...
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... Jew- ish imaginations , Josephus would have taught us a greater number of excellent and ufeful things which perhaps nobody , neither among the Jews nor among the Christians , can now inform us of ; so that I would give a great deal to ...
... Jew- ish imaginations , Josephus would have taught us a greater number of excellent and ufeful things which perhaps nobody , neither among the Jews nor among the Christians , can now inform us of ; so that I would give a great deal to ...
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... Jewish mile , 84000 7000 Stadium or furlong , 8400 700 Parasang , 252000 ' 21000 Of the JEWISH Measures of CAPACITY . Cub . Inches , Pints or Pounds . Bath or Epha , 807,274 27,83 Corus or Chomer , 8072,74 278,3 Seah or Saton , 269,091 ...
... Jewish mile , 84000 7000 Stadium or furlong , 8400 700 Parasang , 252000 ' 21000 Of the JEWISH Measures of CAPACITY . Cub . Inches , Pints or Pounds . Bath or Epha , 807,274 27,83 Corus or Chomer , 8072,74 278,3 Seah or Saton , 269,091 ...
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... Jews wrote . " 45 7. But as for Noah , he was afraid , fince God had determin- ed to destroy mankind , left he thould drown the earth every year ; fo he offered burnt offerings , and befought God that nature might hereafter go on in its ...
... Jews wrote . " 45 7. But as for Noah , he was afraid , fince God had determin- ed to destroy mankind , left he thould drown the earth every year ; fo he offered burnt offerings , and befought God that nature might hereafter go on in its ...
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Abfalom Abimelech Accordingly affiftance againſt Ahab alfo alſo altar Amaziah Ammonites Antiq army Babylon becauſe befides Benhadad brought caft called Canaan Canaanites caufe CHAP commanded cubits David death defired deftroyed deftruction Egypt Egyptians enemies facrifices faid fame father feaft feems felf fend fent fervants feven fhall fhewed fhould fight filver fince firft flain flew fome foon foretold ftill ftones fuch fuffer fuppofe gave hath Hebrews himſelf honour houfe houſe hundred Ifrael Ifraelites Jeroboam Jerufalem Jews Joab Jofephus Jofephus's king king's kingdom land laws Mofes moft moſt multitude obferved occafion paffed perfon perfuaded Philiftines pleaſed pofterity prefent preferve priests promifed prophet punishment reafon refolved reft reign Samaria Saul Solomon Syria tabernacle temple thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thoufand told took tribe tribe of Judah uſe whofe wicked wife worship
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Page 15 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And, that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars...
Page 24 - For of the four sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Chus; for the Ethiopians, over whom he reigned, are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites.
Page 375 - ... the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man...
Page 16 - For many angels" of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.