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CONTENTS.
PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION
INTRODUCTION
Three Stages of the History of the Jewish Church
Authorities for the History
1. Comparison of the different Canonical Books
2. Lost Books
3. The Hebrew Text-The Septuagint
4. Traditions of the East-Josephus
THE PATRIARCHS.
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LECTURE I.
THE CALL OF ABRAHAM.
The beginning of Ecclesiastical History
I. The Migration of Abraham
Ur of the Chaldees- Orfa-Haran-Passages of the
Euphrates-Damascus .
Likeness to the Arabian Chiefs.
The Call of Abraham
1. The Friend of God '-The Worship of the
Heavenly Bodies and of the Kings-Abraham the
first Teacher of the Divine Unity
2. The Father of the Faithful :'
Faith of Abraham
His universal Character
The name of Elohim.
The Covenant-Circumcision-The Father of the
Jewish Church
LECTURE II.
ABRAHAM AND ISAAC.
The first Entrance into the Holy Land
I. The Halting-places of Abraham :
1. Shechem--2. Bethel-3. The Oak of Mamre ;
The Cave of Machpelah-4. Beersheba
PAGB
23
II. Simplicity of the Patriarchal Age :
Ishmael-Isaac-Rebekah
24-31
LECTURE III.
JACOB.
Contrast of Abraham and Jacob.
I. Characters of Jacob and Esau.
46
Esau the Likeness of the Edomites-Jacob, of the
Jews.
48, 49
Examples of mixed Characters
50
II. Wanderings of Jacob
51
I. Jacob at Bethel
2. In Mesopotamia
53
3. At Gilead
4. At Mahanaim
55
56
5. At Peniel
Retirement of Esau
57
59
The Grave of Rachel
The Book of Job .
6. Jacob's Settlement at Shechem.
The Oak of Deborah
7. The Stay at Hebron
8. The Descent into Egypt
The Death of Jacob.
60
61
63
64
65
I. Joseph in Egypt
LECTURE IV.
ISRAEL IN EGYPT.
68-72
II. Israel in Egypt
72
The Shepherd Kings, and Pastoral State of Israel
The Servitude
III. Effects of their Stay :
Points of Contact and Contrast in the Religions of Egypt and
82-84
84
Israel
Strabo's Account of Moses.
I. The Birth of Moses
His Education
His Escape.
II. THE CALL OF MOSES-The Burning Bush-The Shepherd's
Staff
The name of Jehovah
The Return of Moses
His Personal Appearance and Character
His Family
III. THE DELIVERANCE
The Plagues
The Exodus.
The Passover
The Flight.
Rameses-Succoth-Etham--Passage of the Red
Sea
Its peculiar Characteristics
The Song of Miriam
The Importance of Moses.
LECTURE VI.
THE WILDERNESS.
Uncertainties of the Topography of the Wanderings
Importance of the Stay in the Wilderness to Christian and to
Jewish History: Its Peculiarities
Battle of Rephidim.
The Kenites-Jethro
The Difficulties of the Desert-Water-Manna.
Note. Arithmetical Errors in the Sacred History
119-121
121
122, 123
125
127
129-131
132
173-175
2. Farewell of Moses-Deuteronomy-The Two
Songs-The Prayer of Moses, the Man of God' 175-177
The Last View from Pisgah
The End of Moses.
177
179
THE CONQUEST OF PALESTINE.
LECTURE IX.
THE CONQUEST OF THE EAST OF THE JORDAN.
The Early Inhabitants of Western Palestine
The Phoenicians or Canaanites
Conquest of Eastern Palestine.
Sihon, King of Heshbon-Battle of Jahaz-Defeat of
Midian
184
185
187
188, 189
Og, King of Bashan-Battle of Edrei-Settlement of
Bashan-Jair-Nobah.
190-192
Pastoral Character of the Settlement
192
Reuben
193
Gad-Manasseh
194
Controversy between the Eastern and Western Tribes.
195
Legend of Nobah
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196
197
LECTURE X.
THE CONQUEST OF WESTERN PALESTINE-THE FALL OF JERICHO.
Importance of Western Palestine
Phinehas.
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