A Sketch of Semitic Origins: Social and ReligiousMacmillan, 1902 - 342 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Africa Agade agricultural ancient appears Arabic Aramæans Ashtart Ashur Assurbanipal Atargatis Athtar Baal Babylon Babylonia and Assyria called civilization clan conception connected cult date-palm deity dingir divine early Egyptian El-Amarna Enlil epithet Erech Eridu Eshmun evidence fact feast feminine fertility festival Gishgalla gods Gudea Hadad Hamitic Hebraica Hebrew History Hittite ibid III¹ influence inscriptions Ishtar Israel Jastrow Jensen Kenites king kinship Kish land later Marduk marriage Mediterranean Race ment mother goddess myth natural Ninâ Ningirsu Nippur nomadic oasis old mother goddess Old Testament palm tree pantheon Phoenician polyandry primitive Semitic probably prophets race Radau regarded Religion of Babylonia religious Robertson Smith sacred seems SEMITIC ORIGINS Shamash Shirpurla social south Arabia Sumerian survived Syria tablet Tammuz temple Thureau tion totem traced transformed tribes Wellhausen worship Yahwe ZDMG
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 322 - For as in the individual the truth of the apostle's statement is discerned, "that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual...
עמוד 95 - ... and sorrow is he, Dreaming where the beloved may be. And when the warm south-winds arise, He breathes his longing in fervid sighs, — Quickening odors, kisses of balm, •That drop in the lap of his chosen palm.
עמוד 64 - have their property in common, the eldest being lord ; all have one wife and it is first come first served, the man who enters to her leaving at the door the stick which it is usual for every one to carry ; but the night she spends with the eldest."* Glaser3 and Winckler4 think that they have found confirmation of this statement in Sabaean and Minaean inscriptions.
עמוד 48 - ... during the term limited, there must be a commutation of money paid by the separating party to the other , according as they can agree ; and so they become free to make a new marriage elsewhere.
עמוד 35 - The complete proof of early totemism in any race involves the following points : (1) the existence of stocks named after plants and animals ; (2) the prevalence of the conception that the members of the stock are of the blood of the eponym animal, or are sprung from a plant of the species chosen as totem ; (3) the ascription to the totem of a sacred character...
עמוד 105 - athar are all explained. 'Ath&r means according to Lane " a pit dug for a lion or other animal that he may fall into it in order that he may be taken.
עמוד 13 - We know that in Asia there is a vast region bounded on the south and south-west by the Himalayas, on the west by the Bolor mountains, on the north-west by the Ala-Tau, on the north by the Altai range and its offshoots, on the east by the Kingkhan, on the south and south-east by the Felina and Kuen-Loun.
עמוד 100 - The circumstances under which it is performed in Arabia point to the origin of circumcision as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility, by which the child was placed under her protection and its reproductive powers consecrated to her service.
עמוד 4 - The Semitic traditions! all point to Arabia as the original home of the race. It is the only part of the world which has remained exclusively Semite. The racial characteristics — intensity of faith, ferocity, exclusiveness, imagination — can best be explained by a desert origin.