Lectures On The History Of The Jewish Church . .

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SPECIAL AUTHORITIES FOR THIS PERIOD. 1 Gen. xi. 27-1. 26 (Hebrew and Septuagint) ; Josh. xxiv. 2-15; Neh. ix. 7, 8; Ps. cv. 6-23 ; Hos. xii. 3, 4, 12 ; Isa. li. 2. 2. The earlier Jewish traditions: in Ecclus. xliv. 19-23; Judith v. 6-11; Acts vii. 1-16 ; Josephus, Ant. i. 7-ii. 8 ; Philo, De Migrations Abrahami, De Abrahamo, and De Jotepho. 3. The Heathen traditions preserved by Berosus, Nicolaus of Damascus, Hecataeus of Abdera, Cleodemus Malchus (in Josephus, Ant. i. ch. 7, 15), Eupolemus, Artapanus, Apollonius Melon, Alexander Polyhistor, Theodotus, Arlstseus, and Demetrius (in Eusebius, Prcep. Ev. ix. 16-25), Justin (xxxvi. 2). 4. The later Jewish traditions in the Talmud and the Targum Pseudo- Jonathan ; and collected in Otho's Lexicon Rabbinico-philologicum (Altona, 1757), and in Beer's Leben Abraham (Leipsic, 1859). 5. The Mussulman traditions scattered throughout the Koran, collected in D'Herbelot's Sibliotheque Orientate ("Abraham;" "Ishak;" "Jacob;" "Jousouf") ; and conveniently arranged in Lane's Selections from the JKur-dn, �� 12, 13: Weil's Biblical Legends (London, 1846), pp. 47-90: and Jalal-addfn, Hist, of Temple of Jerw. (London, 1836), ch. xi.-xv. The Persian legends in Hyde, De Religione Veterum Persarum, ch. 2, 3. 6. The Christian traditions: in Fabricius's Codex Pseudepigraphus Vet. Testamenti, pp. 311-800: Suidas, Lexicon ("Abraham"). THE PATRIARCHS. LECTURE I. THE CALL OF ABRAHAM. The Patriarchal Age is not in itself the beginning of the history of the Jewish Church or nation. That, as we shall see, has its origin from Moses. But the more primitive period is the necessary prelude of that history, because it contains the earliest distinct "beginnings of the Jewish religion and of the Jewish race. It is in this sen...

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