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Excerpt from A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Esther How to treat the insertions of the versions has been a puzzling question. Substitutions of other readings for those of the Masso retie text should obviously be given in the original Greek, Latin, or Aramaic, in order that students may judge of their textual value, but the long additions of the versions are not translations from Hebrew, and, therefore, no good reason appea...

Excerpt from The Early Religion of Israel In the Book of Genesis the Hebrews first appear as a nomadic race entering Canaan from the east. From the period prior to this migration no records or traditions have come down to us, nevertheless, by means of the sciences of comparative philology and comparative religion it is possible to gain considerable information concerning the theology of that remote age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books p...

Excerpt from The Early History of Syria and Palestine IN ancient Babylonian usage Suri, from which our name Syria is derived, meant Northern Mesopotamia and the adjacent districts of the Armenian and Taurus mountain chains. In Greek and Roman times it was limited eastward and northward and was extended southward, so that it came to denote the region between the Taurus, the Euphrates, the Syr ian Desert, Egypt, and the Mediterranean. This ap p...

Excerpt from Recent Christian Progress: Studies in Christian Thought and Work During the Last Seventy-Five Years Rev. Matthew brown riddle, D.D., LL.D. Professor of New Testament Exegesis, 1871-87, Professor of New I'es tament Exegesis, Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of...

Excerpt from Jerusalem in Bible TimesDuring the season of 1903 - 4 it was my privilege to reside in Jerusalem as director of the American School of Oriental Study and Research, and to carry on special investigations into the ancient history of the city. While thus engaged I was constantly reminded of the lack of a handbook giving in convenient form the results of the latest archaeological researches. Baedecker's admirable guide book is necessa...

Excerpt from Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity In the fields of Semitic religion and of the religions of Israel, Greece, and Rome, the author has been able to work at first hand from the sources, in the cases of the religions of China, India, Egypt, and some of the Indo European races, he has been obliged to depend upon the researches of others. He has endeavoured to follow the best authorities, whose works are cited in the foot...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...