Egypt
_The Theban necropolis: mummies--The funeral of a rich Theban: the procession of the offerings and the funerary furniture, the crossing of the Nile, the tomb, the farewell to the dead, the sacrifice, the coffins, the repast of the dead, the song of the Harper--The common ditch...
The cessation of Egyptian authority over countries in which it had so long prevailed did not at once do away with the deep impression which it had made upon their constitution a...
14. ix. 3-27; it should be rather fixed at the date of the lossIn order to facilitate the collection of the taxes, Solomon divided the kingdom into twelve districts, each of which was placed in charge of a collector; these regions did not c...
2. CHAPTER I--THE CLOSE OF THE THEBAN EMPIRE--(continued)Opposite the Thebes of the living, Khafîtnîbûs, the Thebes of the dead, had gone on increasing in a remarkably rapid manner. It continued to extend in the south-western directio...
12. ii. 5, the Cretans are by some thought to be meant, whichGaza enjoyed among them a kind of hegemony, alike on account of its strategic position and its favourable situation for commerce, but this supremacy was of very precarious chara...
11. xi. 21, where the name is transformed into Jerubbesheth, asIshbaal and Meribbaal are into Ishbosheth and Mephibosheth respectively), in which Baal seems to some not to represent the Canaanite God, but the title Lord as applied to Jahv...
8. xxi. It has been maintained by some critics that there is adouble rôle assigned to one and the same person, only that some maintain that the Jabin of Josh. xi. has been transferred to the time of the Judges, while others make out that t...
7. xxxiv. In conjunction with Simeon, he appears to haverevenged the violation of his sister Dinah by a massacre of the Shechemites, and the dispersion alluded to in Jacobs blessing (Gen. xlix. 5-7) is mentioned as consequent on thi...
9. iv. 5) has confounded the prophetess Deborah, wife ofLapidoth, with Deborah, nurse of Rachel, who was buried near Bethel, under the Oak of Weeping (Gen. xxxv. 8), and consequently place it between Rama and Bethel, in the hill- c...
6. CHAPTER III--THE HEBREWS AND THE PHILISTINES--DAMASCUSAfter reaching Kadesh-barnea, the Israelites in their wanderings had come into contact with various Bedawin tribes--Kenites, Jerahmelites, Edomites, and Midianites, with whom th...
5. CHAPTER III--THE HEBREWS AND THE PHILISTINES--DAMASCUS_The Hebrews in the desert: their families, clans, and tribes--The Amorites and the Hebrews on the left bank of the Jordan--The conquest of Canaan and the native reaction agains...
3. CHAPTER II--THE RISE OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE_The continuance of Egyptian influence over Syrian civilization after the death of Ramses III.--Egyptian myths in Phoenicia: Osiris and Isis at Byblos--Horus, Thot, and the orig...
13. xlviii. 28, as the southern boundary of Judah; it is perhapsThe remnants of the old aboriginal clans, which had hitherto managed to preserve their independence, mainly owing to the dissensions among the Israelites, were at last absorbed...
1. Volume VI._The Theban necropolis: mummies--The funeral of a rich Theban: the procession of the offerings and the funerary furniture, the crossing of the Nile, the tomb, the farewell to th...
10. viii. 4-21), which is also the shortest, is considered bysome to represent the more ancient tradition. The double name of the hero, Gideon-Jerubbaal, has led some to assign its elements respectively to Gideon, judge of the western por...