Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental InstitutionsA. & C. Black, 1907 - 507 sider |
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Additional Note agricultural altar ancient religion annual antique appears Arabian Arabs Astarte Atargatis atoning Baal beasts blood brazen altar burned camel Carthaginian ceremony clan common conception connection consecrated covenant Damiri deity Deut divine eaten evidence explained feast flesh gifts goddess gods Greek Harranians heathenism Hebrew Heracles Hierapolis holocaust holy place human sacrifice Ibn Hisham idea idol Israel Jehovah jinn kind kindred king kinship land legend means myth nations natural nomadic northern Semites oblation offering Old Testament oldest ordinary sacrifices origin Phoenician piacular pillars priests primitive principle prophets race regarded religious rite ritual rule sacred animals sacred stone sacrificial meal sanctity sanctuary Saracens savage seems Semitic Semitic religion sheep slaughter society Sozomen supernatural supra symbol Syrian taboo temple things tion tithe totem tradition tree tribal tribes tribute unclean usage victim Wellh Wellhausen whole worship
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Side 322 - Nilus, the camel chosen as the victim is bound upon a rude altar of stones piled together, and when the leader of the band has thrice led the worshippers round the altar in a solemn procession accompanied with chants, he inflicts the first wound, while the last words of the hymn are still upon the lips of the congregation, and in all haste drinks of the blood that gushes forth.
Side 101 - The trees of the Lord are full of sap ; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Side 375 - I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor hegoats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains : and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Side 222 - If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high.
Side 29 - Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society and all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged....
Side 55 - Religion is not an arbitrary relation of the individual man to a supernatural power, it is a relation of all the members of a community to a power that has the good of the community at heart, and protects its law and moral order.
Side 28 - A man did not choose his religion or frame it for himself ; it came to him as part of the general scheme of social obligations and ordinances laid upon him, as a matter of course, by his position in the family and in the nation.
Side 16 - Thus the study of religion has meant mainly the study of Christian beliefs, and instruction in religion has habitually begun with the creed, religious duties being presented to the learner as flowing from the dogmatic truths he is taught to accept.
Side 81 - The Hebrew ideal of a Divine Kingship that must one day draw all men to do it homage, offered better things than these, not in virtue of any feature that it possessed in common with the Semitic religions as a whole, but solely in virtue of its unique conception of Jehovah as a God whose love for His people was conditioned by a law of absolute righteousness.
Side 16 - In connection with every religion, whether ancient or modern, we find on the one hand certain beliefs, and on the other certain institutions, ritual practices and rules of conduct.