Abraham: His Life and TimesJames Nisbet et Company, 1886 - 179 páginas |
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... worship , the result of a natural desire to accumulate on a great forefather anything that would tend to elevate his personal character or exalt the favour with which he was regarded by God . The narrative appears to me to be con ...
... worship , the result of a natural desire to accumulate on a great forefather anything that would tend to elevate his personal character or exalt the favour with which he was regarded by God . The narrative appears to me to be con ...
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... worship of Hurki , the great moon- god . There is a peculiarity in the buidling which confirms the fact gathered from the inscriptions , that it was the work of two different monarchs , the earliest of whom is supposed to have reigned ...
... worship of Hurki , the great moon- god . There is a peculiarity in the buidling which confirms the fact gathered from the inscriptions , that it was the work of two different monarchs , the earliest of whom is supposed to have reigned ...
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... worship of the celestial bodies . But it was not as mere powers of nature that these were adored , but as real persons with a history and character , many of whom bear a striking resemblance to the personages of classical mythology ...
... worship of the celestial bodies . But it was not as mere powers of nature that these were adored , but as real persons with a history and character , many of whom bear a striking resemblance to the personages of classical mythology ...
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... worship of fire , and some legends connected with Abraham are based on this assumption . But there is no trace of this practice in the monumental records ; and the writers who allude to it in connection with Ur seem to confound the ...
... worship of fire , and some legends connected with Abraham are based on this assumption . But there is no trace of this practice in the monumental records ; and the writers who allude to it in connection with Ur seem to confound the ...
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... worship which here met their observation , even if they too soon learned to acquiesce in it , must at first have seemed an outrage on their own pure religious tradition . Under the open heaven , in the free air of the plain , they could ...
... worship which here met their observation , even if they too soon learned to acquiesce in it , must at first have seemed an outrage on their own pure religious tradition . Under the open heaven , in the free air of the plain , they could ...
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Abimelech Abraham Abram Amorites ancient angels Babylonia Beersheba blessing Book of Jubilees called Canaan Canaanites Chaldæa chap character Chedorlaomer child Christ Christian covenant Damascus daughter dead descendants Divine doubtless dwelt earth Egypt Elamite Eliezer Euphrates faith father favour feet God's Hagar hand Haran heaven Hebrew Hebron heir hills Hittites Holy honour hundred inhabitants inscriptions Isaac Ishmael Israel Israelites Jacob Jehovah Jewish Jordan Josephus Josephus Antiq Keturah king land live Lord Machpelah Mamre Melchizedek miles moral Moses mother Nahor nations natural neighbourhood obedience offered Palestine patriarch plain possession posterity priest probably promise Rawlinson Rebekah received regarded revelation righteous sacrifice Sarah Sarai says Scripture seed seems Semitic Septuagint servant Shechem Sodom sojourn soul spot stranger supposed temple tent Terah thee thou town tradition transaction tribes true religion truth unto valley wife word worship