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HEBREW IDOLATRY AND SUPERSTITION

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BL 1650 .H63

03-27-282013

Folk-Lore
Grafton

3-1-28
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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

TRADITIONAL RELIGION.

1. Religion of Hebrews not proved to have been developed from barbarism.-2. Attempts to prove it class idolatry during period of Kings as survival.-3. Professor Robertson Smith's work. −4. His theory as to traditional religion.—5. It is not proved.-6. As there are survivals here, so there may have been among the Hebrews.—7. Psalm cvi. quoted.-8. The evidence bears it out.-9. Wisdom xii. quoted.-10. Two classes of idolatry, Hittite and Amorite.-11. Aboriginal superstitions cannot be rooted out.-12. Is there evidence that a people can retain primitive beliefs?-13. Well-dressing is such a survival.14. Hill-terrace cultivation.-15. Similar survivals among the ancients.-16. There is evi

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