LECTURES ON Jewish Antiquities ; DELIVERED AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY IN CAMBRIDGE, A. D. 1802 & 1803. BY DAVID TAPPAN, D. D. LATE HOLLIS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THAT SEMINARY. PUBLISHED BY W. HILLIARD AND E. LINCOLN, AND FOR SALE AT THE CORNHILL, BOSTON. 1807. Toppan THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY fa 5704512 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT; E it remembered, that on the fifteenth day of August, Bit in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven, in the thirty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, Mary Tappan, of said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof she claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "LEC"TURES ON JEWISH ANTIQUITIES; delivered at Har "vard University in Cambridge, A.D. 1802 and 1803, by DAVID "TAPPAN, D. D. late Hollis Professor of Divinity in that Sem"inary." で In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, "intitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by se66 curing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors "and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein men"tioned:" and also to an Act, intitled, "An Act supplementa"ry to an Act, intitled, An Act for the encouragement of learn"ing, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the "authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times there"in mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts "of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other "prints." WILLIAM S. SHAW, Clerk of the District of A true copy of Record, mom } ERRATA. Page 10. 1. 26. read by every fair inquirer, instead of " to," &c. 17: 1. 15. insert the word he before the words "had said." 126. 1. 3. from the bottom, instead of "with crowning," read for crowning. 200. 1. 13. for "intend-," read intended. 217. 1. 1. for " message," read messenger. CONTENTS. Page. RIGIN and progress of civil government. government at first parental or patriarchal. Illustrations and proofs from sacred history before and after the flood. Crime of Ham, for which he was cursed. Why this Patriarchal government farther illustrated. Sentence of Jacob on his twelve sons. Special government of the Jews. Its leading design, the preservation of the true religion among them, in connexion with their temporal freedom and pros- Objection of partiality in Jehovah toward the Jewish nation, answered. Objection to the Hebrew constitution as a system of intolerence and war, of conquest or extermina- Hebrew constitution adapted to secure the freedom and hap- piness of its subjects. Hebrew government originally a 30 |