The Covenant of Salt As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought

That which is a means of life in one instance may be a means of death in another. A breath that might kindle a tiny spark into a living blaze might also extinguish a quivering f...

It is not that God arbitrarily commanded his people to have a care in the _speaking_ of his name, as if he were jealous of its irreverent mention; but it is that he reminded the...

Milk is sometimes accepted by the Arabs as a substitute for salt, as the essential factor in the covenant of salt (the _milha_).[92] Milk is nature's life food, it stands for li...

In 1830, a paper by Dr. W. Stevens, read before the London College of Physicians, and afterwards elaborated and published in a volume, contended that the salient ingredients of...

[19] See Burckhardt's _Travels in Syria_, p. 294 f.; _Beduinen und Wahaby_, p. 144 f.; Niebuhr's _Beschreibung von Arabien_, p. 48; Lane's _The Thousand and One Nights_, II., 42...

"The German Jew sets bread and salt upon his table, but the loaf, if possible, must be whole. He cuts it without making a separation, takes it up with both his hands, sets it do...

A custom prevails in some portions of Pennsylvania, even to this day, of carrying a bag of salt, with a Bible, over the threshold, on entering a new house for the first time. Th...

In 1884 I issued a volume on "The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture." Later I was led to attempt, and to announce as in preparation, another volume...

The "Ten Commandments" are the law, the law of the covenant of love; but, be it remembered, they are not the "Mosaic law." They were not originated by Moses; nor were they done...

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