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Primitive Semitic religion to-day : a record of researches, discoveries and studies in Syria, Palestine and the Sinaitic peninsula / by Samuel Ives Curtiss.

Title
Primitive Semitic religion to-day : a record of researches, discoveries and studies in Syria, Palestine and the Sinaitic peninsula / by Samuel Ives Curtiss.
Author
Curtiss, Samuel Ives, 1844-1904
Publication
Chicago : Fleming H. Revell, 1402 [i.e. 1902]

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Additional Authors
  • Ward, William Hayes, 1835-1916.
  • Fleming H. Revell Company publisher.
Description
288 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill. (1 col.); 22 cm.
Uniform Title
  • ATLA monograph preservation program ATLA fiche 1986-3931.
  • ATLA Historical Monographs Collection. Series 2 (1894-1923).
Alternative Title
Primitive Semitic religion today.
Subject
  • Semites > Religion
  • Semites > Folklore
  • Semitic cults
  • Assyro-Babylonian religion
  • Syria > Antiquities
  • Palestine > Antiquities
  • Middle East > Social life and customs
  • Petra (Extinct city)
Genre/Form
Folklore
Note
  • "Altars and sacrifices in the primitive art of Babylonia," by the Rev. W. Hayes Ward: p. 266-277.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface -- Introductory -- Sketch of preliminary travels, 1898-1899 -- Special researches, summers of 1900-1901 -- Sources of primitive Semitic religion -- Modern Semites -- Conceptions of God -- The local divinities -- The deified men -- Physical relation of man to God -- Moral relation of man to God -- The high places and sacred shrines -- Priests and "holy men" -- Vows and annual festivals -- The institution of sacrifice -- The use of blood -- Redemption, and the "bursting forth of blood" -- The significance of sacrifice -- The place of sacrifice -- Conclusion -- Appendices Questions on the survival of ancient religion in Bible lands -- Outline of journeys in Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and the Sinaitic peninsula -- The seven wells at Beersheba -- The prose version of the story of 'Arja -- High places and sacred shrines -- The Samaritan Passover -- Altars and sacrifices in the primitive art of Babylonia / Rev. W. Hayes Ward.
ISBN
0837099315 (microfiche)
LCCN
^^^02014007^
OCLC
  • 1081341
  • SCSB-10232023
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library