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CONTENTS.
SECT. 143. Interdicted Food.
144.
145.
Beverage.
Time and circumstances of taking Refreshment.
146. Table and method of Sitting.
156.
Concubines.
Fruitfulness in the Marriage state.
157. Marriage of a Childless Brother's Widow.
158. Concerning Adultery.
159. The Suspected Wife.
160. Bill of Divorce.
161. Child Birth.
163. Antiquity of Circumcision.
On the Naming of Children.
165. Concerning the First-Born.
The Nurture of Children.
167. The power of the Father.
Of the Testament or Will.
Respecting Slaves.
168.
169.
170. Ways in which men became Slaves.
171. Condition of slaves among the Hebrews.
172. Condition of slaves among other Nations.
CHAP. XI.
CHARACTER AND SOCIAL INTERCOURSE OF THE
HEBREWS.
SECT. 173. Character of the Hebrews.
174. Propriety and refinement of Manners.
175.
Mode of Salutation.
176. On Visiting.
177. Of Gifts.
178. Kinds of presents and methods of bringing them.
179.
Publick Honours.
180. Conversation and Bathing.
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SECT. 184.
185.
Of Diseases generally.
186.
Disease of the Philistines mentioned in 1 Sam. 5-6.
Disease of King Jehoram.
187. False Conceptions.
188. Countries where the Leprosy prevails.
189. Beginnings and progress of Leprosy.
NOTE. I. On Bohak as distinct from infectious Leprosy.
II. On the Leprosy of Gaudaloupe.
190. On the Pestilence.
191. The disease of Saul and Nebuchadnezzar.
192. Respecting Demoniacks.
193. Demoniacks were possessed with a Devil.
194. General view of the opposite Argument.
195. Symptoms in Demoniacks, the same with those in dis-
eased persons.
196. The Apostles, Evangelists, and Christ regarded Demo-
niacks as diseased persons.
197. Real possessions inconsistent with the doctrine of Je-
sus and his Apostles.
198. The Pool near the Sheep-Market at Jerusalem.
199. Concerning Paralyticks.
200. The death of Judas Iscariot.
NOTE I. Maundrell on the Sepulchres of the Kings.
II. Harmer on the White-washing of Sepulchres.
208. Articles, which were buried with the dead.
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SECT. 213.
214.
PART II.
ON POLITICAL ANTIQUITIES.
CHAP. I.
ON THE HEBREW COMMONWEALTH.
Patriarchal Government.
The Fundamental Law of the Mosaic Institutions.
215. Condition of the Hebrews, as respected other Nations.
Principal Officers in the Hebrew State.
216.
217.
218.
Connection of the Tribes with each other.
The COMITIA or Legislative Assemblies.
219. Form of Government a mixed one.
220. The Ruler of the Israelitish Community.
221. The Theocracy.
222.
Historical Tables.
CHAP. II.
OF KINGS, OFFICERS OF STATE, AND OTHER MAGIS-
TRATES.
SECT. 223. The Anointing of Kings.
224. Royal Robe, Diadem, and Crown.
225. The Throne.
226. The Sceptre.
227. The Royal Table.
228. Seclusion of Kings, Journeys, etc.
229. Royal Palace and Gardens.
230. Veneration paid to Kings, and Titles, which were be-
stowed upon them.
231. The duties of the Hebrew Monarchs.
232. Extent of the Royal power and prerogatives.
233. Methods of promulgating Laws, etc.
234. On the Royal Revenues.
235. Magistrates under the Monarchy.
238. The method, in which the Officers and others held in-
tercourse with the King.
239. Magistrates during and after the Captivity.
240.
241.
242.
Tetrarchs.
Roman Procurators.
Of the Tribute and Half Shekel of the Temple.
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SECT. 243.
244.
245.
246.
247.
CHAP. III.
OF TRIALS AND PUNISHMENTS.
Of Judges.
The Sanhedrin.
NOTE. Of the Sanhedrin, instituted by Moses.
Other Tribunals in the time of Christ.
The time of Trials.
The Forum or place of Trials.
248. Form of Trial.
249. Prisons and Tortures.
Regulations, etc. in respect to Debtors.
On Usury.
250.
251.
252.
The smallest Punishment.
258.
259.
260.
261.
On Retaliation.
Mosaic Punishments.
Excision from the people. Excommunication.
Of punishments, which consist of Posthumous insults.
Punishments, introduced from other Nations.
Crucifixion, as practised among the Romans.
262. The cruelties of Crucifixion.
263. The Publick Executioner.
264.
265.
SECT. 266.
267.
268.
269.
Of the Blood-Avenger, and Cities of Refuge.
Of the unknown Murderer.
CHAP. IV.
ON MILITARY AFFAIRS.
General view of Military Science.
General Military Enrolment.
Of the Levy for Actual Service.
Divisions etc. introduced into Armies.
270. Military Reviews and Inspections.
Arms, with which the Soldiers fought hand to hand.
Of Javelins.
275.
276.
277.
278.
Of the Bow, Arrow, and Quiver.
279.
Of the Sling.
280. Of Engines, used in war.
281. Battering Rams.
282. Respecting the Cavalry.
SECT. 283. Of Chariots of war.
284. Sports and Exercises preparatory to war.
285. Gymnastick Sports.
286. Of Encampments.
287. On Military Marches.
288. Military Standards.
289. Respecting war.
290. Preparations for Battle.
291. Of the Battle.
292.
293.
On Sieges.
Circumvallation.
294. The Besieger's mound.
265. Consequences of victory.
296.
297.
Severities of ancient warfare.
Justice of the war against the Canaanites.
NOTE. Right of the Israelites to Palestine.
298. On the division of the Spoils.
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299. Respecting the Spoils, which the Hebrews took away
from the Egyptians.
300. Periods, when there was a cessation from Hostilities.
PART III.
ON SACRED ANTIQUITIES.
HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE RELIGION OF THE BIBLE.
SECT. 301. Religion down to the Deluge.
302.
from the Deluge to Abraham.
303. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
304. Respecting the religion of the Patriarchs.
305. Respecting Moses.
306. On the question, "Whether Moses taught the exis-
tence of a merely national God?" **
307.
On the question, "Whether the character of Jehovah
as represented by Moses is merely that of a being
inexorably just ?""
308. Respecting the regulations, which were made in order
to preserve the true Religion.
309. On the Moral tendency of the instructions and institu-
tions of Moses.
310.
On the question, "Whether there are Types in the
Laws of Moses?"
311. Sketch of Religion from Moses till after the Babylo-
312.
nish Captivity.
Perseverance of the Hebrews in their Religion after
the Captivity.