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The Shrines of Naphtali and Cities of Phoenicia, NORTHERN BORDER LANDCI. Lebanon, II. Hamath and the Northern Border of Israel, III. Palmyra, IV. Damascus, Appendix, All Dashan, unto Salchah and Edrel, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. For only Og king of Baslscen remained of the remnant of the giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. And the rest of Gileacl, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.@CDEUT. iii. 10C13. HISTORICAL NOTICES.remotest historic period down to our own day, BASHAN is the land of sacred romance. From the there has ever been something of mystery and lot of strange wild interest connected with that old kingdom. in the memorable raid of the Arab chiefs of Mesopotamia into Eastern and Central Palestine, we read that the ARephaim in Ashteroth-Karnaim@ bore the first brunt of the onset. The Rephaim,Cthat is, Athe giants,@ for such is the meaning of the name,Cmen of stature, beside when the Jewish spies said long afterwards that they were as grasshoppers (Num. xiii. 33). These were the aboriginal inhabitants of Bashan, and probably of the greater part of Canaan. Most of them died out or were exterminated at a very early period; but a few remarkable specimens of the race, such as Goliath, and Sippai, and Lahmi (I Chron), were the terror of the Israelites, and the champions of their foes, as late as the time of David ;Cand, strange to say, traditionary memorials of these primeval giants exist even now in almost every section of Palestine, in the form of graves of enormous dimensions,Cas the grave of Abel near Damascus, thirty feet long; that of Seth, in Anti-Lebanon, about the same size; and that of Noah, in Lebanon, which measures no less than seventy yards! The capital and stronghold of the Rephaim in Bashan was Ashteroth- Karnaim; so called from the goddess there worshiped,Cthe mysterious Atwo-horned Astarte.@ We shall presently see, if my readers will accompany me in my proposed tour, that the cities built and occupied some forty centuries ago by these old giants exist even yet. I have traversed their streets; I have opened the doors of their houses; I have slept peacefully in their long-deserted halls. We shall see, too, that among the massive ruins of these wonderful cities lie sculptured images of Astarte, with the crescent moon, which gave her the name Carnaim, upon her brow. Of one of these mutilated statues I took a sketch in the city of Kenath; and in the same place I bought from a shepherd an old coin with the full figure of the goddess stamped upon it. Four hundred years after the incursion of Chedorlaomer and his allies, another and a far more formidable enemy, emerging from the southern deserts, suddenly appeared on the borders of Bashan. Sihon, the warlike king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, had tried in vain to bar their progress. The rich plains, and wooded hills, and noble pasture-lands of Bashan offered a tempting prospect to the shepherd tribes of Israel. They came not on a sudden raid, like the Nomadic Arabs of the desert; they aimed at a complete conquest, and a permanent settlement. The aboriginal Rephaim were now all but extinct: AOnly Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of the giants.@ The last of his race in this region, he was still the ruler of his country: and the whole Amorite inhabitants, from Hermon to the Jabbok, and from the Jordan to the desert, acknowledged the supremacy of this giant warrior. Og resolved to defend his country. It was a splendid inheritance, and he would not resign it without a struggle. Collecting his forces, he marshaled them on the broad plain before Edrei. We have no details of the battle; but, doubtless, the Amorites and their leader fought bravely for country and for life. It was in vain; a stronger than human arm warred for Israel. Og=s army was defeated, and he himself slain. It would seem that the Ammonites, like the Bedawin of the present day, followed in the wake of the Israelitish army; and after the defeat and flight of the Amorites, pillaged their deserted capital, Edrei, and carried off as a trophy the iron bedstead of Og. AIs it not,@ says the Jewish historian, Ain Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man@ (Dent. iii. 11). The conquest of Bashan, begun under the leadership of Moses in person, was completed by Jair, one of the most distinguished chiefs of the tribe of Manasseh. In narrating his achievements, the sacred historian brings out another remarkable fact connected with this kingdom of Bashan. In Argob, one of its little provinces, Jair took no less than sixty great cities, Afenced with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great many@ (Deut. iii. 4, 5, 14) with and married the daughter of Talmai, their chief; and she became the mother of Absalom. The wild acts of his life were doubtless, to some extent, the result of maternal training; they were at least characteristic of the stock from which she sprang. After murdering his brother Amnon, he fled to his uncle in Geshur, and found a safe asylum there amid its natural fastnesses, until his father=s wrath was appeased. It is a remarkable fact,Cand it shows how little change three thousand years have produced on this Eastern land,Cthat Bashan is still the refuge for all offenders. If a man can only reach it, no matter what may have been his crimes or his failings, he is safe; the officers of government dare not follow him, and the avenger of blood even turns away in despair. During a short tour in Bashan, I met more than a dozen refugees, who, like Absalom in Geshur, awaited in security some favourable turn of events. Bashan was regarded by the poet-prophets of Israel as almost an earthly paradise. The strength and grandeur of its oaks (Ezek. xxvii. 6), the beauty of its mountain scenery (Ps. lxviii. 15), the unrivaled luxuriance of its pastures (Jer. I. 19), the fertility of its wide-spreading plains, and the excellence of its cattle (Ps. xxii. 12; Micah vii.1 4),Call supplied the sacred penmen with lofty imagery. Oak forests still clothe the mountain-sides; the soil of the plains and the pastures on the downs are rich as of yore; and though the periodic raids of Arab tribes have greatly thinned the flocks and herds, as they have desolated the cities, yet such as remain,Cthe rams, and lambs, and goats, and bulls,Cmay be appropriately described in the words of Ezekiel, as Aall of them fatlings of Bashan@ (Xxxix. 18). Such a statement seems all but incredible. It would not stand the arithmetic of Bishop Colenso for a moment. Often, when reading the passage, I used to think that some strange statistical mystery hung over it; for how could a province measuring not more than thirty miles by twenty support such a number of fortified cities, especially when the greater part of it was a wilderness of rocks? But as mysterious and incredible as this seemed, on the spot, with my own eyes, I have seen that it is literally true. The cities are there to this day. Some of them retain the ancient names recorded in the Bible. The boundaries of Argob are as clearly defined by the hand of nature as those of our own island home. These ancient cities of Bashan contain probably the very oldest specimens of domestic architecture now existing in the world. Though Bashan was conquered by the Israelites, and allotted to the half tribe of Manasseh, some of its native tribes were not exterminated. Leaving the fertile plains and rich pasture lands to the conquerors, these took refuge in the rocky recesses of Argob, and amid the mountain fastnesses of Hermon. AThe Geshurites and the Maacathites,@ Joshua tells us, Adwell among the Israelites until this day@ (xiii. 13). The former made their home among the rocks of Argob. David, in some of his strange wanderings, metLying on an exposed frontier, bordering on the restless and powerful kingdom of Damascus, and in the route of the warlike monarchs of Nineveh and Babylon, Bashan often experienced the horrors of war, and the desolating tide of conquest often rolled past and over it. The traces of ancient warfare are yet visible, as we shall see, in its ruinous fortresses; and we shall also see that it is now as much exposed as ever to the ravages of enemies. It was the first province of Palestine that fell before the Assyrian invaders; and its inhabitants were the first who sat and wept as captives by the banks of the rivers of the East. Bashan appears to have lost its unity with its freedom. It had been united under Og, and it remained united in possession of the half tribe of Manasseh; but after the captivity its very name, as a geographical term, disappears from history. When the Israelites were taken captive, the scattered remnants of the ancient tribes came back, some from the parched plains of the great desert, some from the rocky defiles of Argob, and some from the heights and glens of Hermon, and they filled and occupied the whole country. Henceforth the name ABasban@ is never once mentioned by either sacred or classic writer; but the four provinces into which it was then rent are often referred to, and these provinces were not themselves new. Gaulcinitig is manifestly the territory of Golan, the ancient Hebrew city of refuge; Auranicis is only the Greek form of the Iiauran of Ezekiel (xlviii. 16); Batanea, the name then given to the eastern mountain range, is but a corruption of Bashan; andembracing that singularly wild and rocky district on the north, is just a Greek translation of the old Argob, Athe stony.@ This last province is the only one mentioned in the New Testament. It formed part of the tetrarchy of Philip, son of the great Herod (Luke iii. 1). But though Bashan is not mentioned by name, it was the scene of a few of the most interesting events of New Testament history. It was down the western slopes of Bashan=s high table-land that the demons, expelled by Jesus from the poor man, chased the herd of swine into the Sea of Galilee. It was on the grassy slopes of Bashan=s hills that the multitudes were twice miraculously fed by the merciful Saviour. And that Ahigh mountain,@ to which He led Peter, and James, and John, and on whose summit they beheld the glories of the transfiguration, was that very Hermon which forms the boundary of Bashan. And the sacred history of this old kingdom does not end here. Paul travelled through it on his way to Damascus; and, after his conversion, Bashan, which then formed the principal part of the kingdom of Arabia, was the first field of his labours as an apostle of Jesus. AWhen it pleased God,@ he tells us, Awho separated me from my mother=s womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia@ (Gal. i.15-1) His mission to Arabia, or to Bashan, seems to have been eminently successful; and that Church, which may be called the first-fruits of his labours, made steady progress. In the fourth century, nearly the whole inhabitants were Christian; heathen temples were converted into churches, and new churches were built in every town and village.At that period, there were no fewer than thirty-three bishoprics in the single ecclesiastical province of Arabia. The Christians are now nearly all gone; but their churches, as we shall see, are there still, two or three turned into mosques, but the vast majority of them standing desolate in deserted cities. Noble structures some of them are, with marble colonnades and stately portico; showing us alike the wealth and the taste of their founders, and now remaining almost perfect, as if awaiting the influx of a new Christian population. There was something to me inexpressibly mournful in passing from the silent street into the silent church and especially in reading, as I often read, Greek inscriptions over the doors, telling how such an one, at such a date, had consecrated this building, formerly a temple of Jupiter, or Venus, or Astarte, as the case might be, to the worship of the Triune God, and had called it by the name of the blessed saint or martyr So-and-so. Now there are no worshipers in those churches; and the people who for twelve centuries have held supreme authority in the land, have been the constant and ruthless persecutors of Christians and Christianity. But their power is on the wane; their reign is well-nigh at an end; and the time is not far distant when Christian influence, and power, and industry, shall again repeople the deserted cities, and fill the vacant churches, and cultivate the desolated fields of Palestine. The foregoing notices will show my readers that Bashan is, in many respects, among the most interesting of the provinces of Palestine. It is comparatively unknown, besides. Western Palestine is traversed every year; it forms a necessary part of the Grand Tour, and it has been described in scores of volumes. But the travelers who have hitherto succeeded in exploring Bashan scarcely amount to half-a-dozen. and the state of the country is so unsettled, and many of the people who inhabit it are so hostile to Europeans, and, in fact, to strangers in general, that there seems to be but little prospect of an increase of tourists in that region. This very isolation of Bashan added immensely to the charm and instructiveness of my visit. Both land and people remain thoroughly Oriental. Nowhere else is Patriarchal life so fully or so strikingly exemplified. The social state of the country and the habits of the people are just what they were in the days of Abraham or Job. The raids of the eastern tribes are as frequent and as devastating now as they were then. The flocks of a whole village are often swept away in a single incursion, and the fruits of a whole harvest carried off in a single night. The arms used are, with the exception of a few muskets, similar to those with which Chedorlaomer conquered the Rephaim. The implements of husbandry, too, are as rude and as simple as they were when Isaac cultivated the valley of Gerar. And the hospitality is everywhere as profuse and as genuine as that which Abraham exercised in his tents at Mamre. I could scarcely get over the feeling, as I rode across the plains of Bashan and climbed the wooded hills through the oak forests, and saw the primitive ploughs and yokes of oxen and goads, and heard the old Bible salutations given by every passer-by, and received the urgent invitations to rest and eat at every village and hamlet, and witnessed the killing of the kid or lamb, and the almost incredible despatch with which it is cooked and served to the guests. I could scarcely get over the feeling, I say, that I had been somehow spirited away back thousands of years, and set down in the land of Nod, or by the patriarch=s tents at Beersheba. Common life in Bashan I found to be a constant enacting of early Bible stories. Western Palestine has been in a great measure spoiled by travelers. In the towns frequented by tourists, and in their usual lines of route, I always found a miserable parody of Western manners, and not unfrequently of Western dress and language; but away in this old kingdom one meets with nothing in dress, language, or manners, save the stately and instructive simplicity of patriarchal times. Another peculiarity of Bashan I cannot refrain from communicating to my readers. The ancient cities and even the villages of Western Palestine have been almost annihilated, with the exception of Jerusalem, Hebron, and two or three ancient houses. In others, not one stone has been left upon another. In some cases we can scarcely discover the exact spot where a noted city stood, so complete has been the desolation. Even in Jerusalem itself, only a very few vestiges of the ancient buildings remain: the Tower of David, portions of the wall of the Temple area, and one or two other fragments, Cjust enough to form the subject of dispute among antiquaries. Zion is Aploughed like a field.@ I have seen the plough at work on it, and with the hand that writes these lines I have plucked ears of corn in the fields of Zion. I have pitched my tent on the site of ancient Tyre, and searched, but searched in vain, for a single trace of its ruins. Then, but not till then, did I realize the full force and truth of the prophetic denunciation upon it: A Thou shalt be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again@ (Ezek. xxvi. 21). The very ruins of CapernaumCthat city which, in our Lord=s day, was A exalted unto heaven@C have been so completely obliterated, that the question of its site never has been, and probably never will be, definitely settled. And these are not solitary cases: Jericho has disappeared; Bethel is Acome to nought@ (Amos v. 5); Samaria is Aas an heap of the field, as plantings of a vineyard@ (Micah i. 6). The state of Bashan is totally different: it is literally crowded with towns and large villages; and though the vast majority of them are deserted, they are not ruined. I have more than once entered a deserted city in the evening, taken possession of a comfortable house, and spent the night in peace. Many of the houses in the ancient cities of Bashan are perfect, as if only finished yesterday. The walls are sound, the roofs unbroken, the doors, and even the window-shutters in their places. Let not my readers think that I am transcribing a passage from the AArabian Nights.@ I am relating sober facts; I am simply telling what I have seen, and what I purpose just now more fully to describe. ABut how,@ you ask me, Acan we account for the preservation of ordinary dwellings in a land of ruins? If one of our modern English cities were deserted for a millennium, there would scarcely be a fragment of a wall standing.@ The reply is easy enough. The houses of Bashan are not ordinary houses. Their walls are from five to eight feet thick, built of large squared blocks of basalt; the roofs are formed of slabs of the same material, hewn like planks, and reaching from wall to wall; the very doors and window-shutters are of stone, hung upon pivots projecting above and below. Some of these ancient cities have from two to five hundredhouses still perfect, but not a man to dwell in them. On one occasion, from the battlements of the Castle of Salcah, I counted some th irty towns and villages, dotting the surface of the vast plain, many of them almost as perfect as when they were built, and yet for more than five centuries there has not been a single inhabitant in one of them. It may easily be imagined with what feelings I read on that day, and on that spot, the remarkable words of Moses: AThe generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say when they see the plagues of this land, even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done this unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger ?A My readers are now prepared, I trust, to make a pleasant and profitable excursion to the giant cities of Bashan. I shall promise not to make too large a demand upon their time and patience, and yet to give them a tolerably clear and full view of one of the most interesting countries in the world. THE CARAVAN. On a bright and balmy morning in February, a party of seven cavaliers defiled from the East Gate of Damascus, rode for half-an-hour among the orchards that skirt the old city, and then, turning to the left, struck out, along a broad beaten path through the open fields, in a south-easterly direction. The leader was a wild-looking figure. OUR ARAB GUIDE.His dress was a red cotton tunic or shirt, fastened round the waist by a broad leathern girdle. Over it was a loose jacket of dressed sheepskin, the wool inside. His feet and legs were bare. On his head was a flame-coloured handkerchief; fastened above by a coronet of black camel's hair, which left the ends and long fringe to flow over his shoulders.He was mounted on an active, shaggy pony, with a pad for a saddle, and a hair halter for a bridle. Before him, across the back of his little steed, he carried a long rifle, his only weapon. Immediately behind him, on powerful Arab horses, were three men in Western costume: one of these was the writer. Next came an Arab, who acted as dragoman or rather courier; and two servants on stout hacks brought up the rear. On gaining the beaten track, our guide struck into a sharp canter. The city was soon left far behind, and, on turning, we could see its tall white minarets shooting up from the sombre foliage, and thrown into bold relief by the dark hack-ground of Anti- Lebanon. The plain spread out on each side, smooth as a lake, covered with the delicate green of the young grain. Here and there were long belts and large clumps of dusky olives, from the midst of which rose the gray towers of a mosque or the white dome of a saint=s tomb. On the south, the plain was shut in by a ridge of black, bare hills, appropriately named Jebel-el-Aswad, Athe Black Mountains ;A while away on the west, in the distance, Hermon rose in all its majesty, a pyramid of spotless snow. From whatever point one sees it, there are few landscapes in the world which, for richness and soft enchanting beauty, can be compared with the plain of Damascus. After riding about seven miles, during which we passed straggling groups of menCsome on foot, some on horses and donkeys, and some on camels, most of them dressed like our guide, and all hurrying on in the same direction as ourselves, we reached the eastern extremity of the Black Mountains, and found ourselves on the side of a narrow green

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THE TEMPLE by CALDECOTT THE SECOND TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM ITS HISTORY AND ITS STRUCTURE BY W. SHAW CALDECOTT (Member of the Royal Asiatic Society) AUTHOR OF ATHE TABERNACLE@; ASOLOMON=S TEMPLE@ 1908 CONTENTS PREFACE . . . . . . VII PART I THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND TEMPLE, I. EARLY YEARS OF EZEKIEL=S LIFE AND MINISTRY, A Prince of the BloodCThe Revolt of JerusalemCThe Call of EzekielCEzekiel becomes famous CHis ministerial activityCHis silence during the siegeCNebuchadrezzar=s conquestCA Babylonian ViceroyCDetermination of the exileCThe Hebrews abandon idolatry. II. LATER YEARS OF EZEKIEL=S LIFE AND MINiSTRY Treatment of Hebrew manuscriptsC The Temple plans redrawnCTheir consecration and acceptance CVision of the new TempleCThe first use of the plans. III. AN IMAGINARY VISIT TO THE COMPLETED TEMPLE AND ALTAR Temple laws of personal purityCThe central altar CMeasurements of the altarCInterior of the Temple courtCInterior of the outer court. IV.THE NEW CONSTITUTION IN CHURCH ORDERThe old laws still vitalCSome priestly rules revivedCRank and duties of the PrinceCThe APrince@ not a Ring CCommercial integrity enjoinedCEzekiel=s literary style. V. THE NEW CONSTITUTION IN STATE, An ideal of restorationCThe sacred territoryCThe Sanctuary area on MoriahCThe clerical patrimoniesCThe Prince=s landed estateCThe tribal settlementCEzekiel=s closing years. VI. THE CHALDEAN EXILE AND THE FALL OF BABYLON. The Median nomadsCA scheme of transferCStatus of the exilesCNebuchadrezzar the GreatCThe later years of exileCSudden rise of PersiaCPeaceful occupation of BabylonCDeath of NabonidusCDeath of BelshazzarCDeath of Cyrus CReign of Darius the MedeCAn illuminating document. VII. PREPARATION FOR THE EXILES= RETURN Period of Daniel=s lifeCTwo documents of StateCThe policy of CyrusCThe Temple in BabylonCOrigin of E-sagilCBelshazzar=s feastCThe second IsaiahCAn eye-witness of idol. makingCA threefold argumentCSalvation, local and larger CA bright vision of the future CDifficulties of the returnC Promises for wayfarers. VIII THE FIRST RETURN: THAT UNDER ZERUBBABEL The ten tribes remainCActivity of the two tribesCThe Prince of JudahCFormation of caravansCCensus of ZerubbabelCDisparity in population numbers CQuarrels of the rusticsC Analysis of the first censusCRechabites and hedge-dwellers C Tribal distinctions of the return. IX. THE BUILDING OF THE SECOND TEMPLE Funds for Temple buildingCThe new Temple begunCThe stone-layingCA political blunderCSamaritan enmity CCornpletion of the buildingCDarius ascends the Persian throneCHe protects his Hebrew subjectsCDedication of the Temple CLocal animosities appeasedCThe priestly courses. X. THE HISTORICAL SILENCE OF FIFTY-SIX YEARS The prophet MalachiCThe Book of Esther COrigin of the Persian WarCXerxes= invasion of GreeceCDeath of ZerubbabelCA representative at SusaCA long-lost name found. XI. THE GOVERNORSHIP OF EZRA, AND THE SECOND RETURN Ezra=s early lifeCTerms of his commissionCHis misplaced gratitudeCHis principal fellow-travellersCOrder of caravan marchCHe arrives at JerusalemCHis first official actsCHis dramatic griefCThe mixed marriagesCPopular reactionC An official complaintCEzra=s fall. XII. THE FIRST GOVERNOR- SHIP OF NEHEMIAH. He succeeds EzraCA scion of royaltyCHe visits Samaria CRepair of the city wallsCFoes and traitorsCCompletion of the city wallsCMunicipal governmentCHospitality in the cityCThe city walls dedicatedCLiterary conservatismCThe law publicly readCA revived spiritual lifeCA covenant service heldCThe citizens of JerusalemCA civil conscriptionCPopulation of Jerusalem. XIII. NEHEMIAH=S SECOND GOVERNORSHIP - Decay of moral fervourCSupplies for Levites abolishedCHeathen guest of the cityCEzra reinvites NehemiahCNehemiah=s fresh reformsCThe Samaritan schismCSite of Samaritan TempleCDeath of EzraCClose of Old Testament Canon. Note.CThe Remaining Fragments of Old Testament History in the Book of Nehemiah. XIV. THE LAST CENTURY OF PERSIAN RULE . .The scribes a literary professionCInfluence of NehemiahCHigh Priest becomes NasiCCross currents of national lifeCDecay of the Persian EmpireCThe fall of PersiaCRise of Alexander the GreatCThe founding of AlexandriaCThe Septuagint. CONTENTS xv CHAPTER PAGE XV. ROMAN JUDEA TO THE REMOVAL OF THE TEMPLE. Rise of the Herod FamilyCDeath of Julius CaesarCHerod appointed KingCThree years of civil warCHerod=s resolute governingCJosephus= dates harmonizedCA new Temple proposedCHerod=s scheme carried out. PART II THE STRUCTURE OF THE SECOND TEMPLE INTRODUCTION TO PART II. .301 I. SOME MEASUREMENTS OF THE TEMPLE . . 303 The first progressCThe second progressCTemple entered and measured CThe Temple woodworkC@ The inner court without ACVarious Temple chambersCThe two blocks of chambersCTwo epiphaniesCHare! and Ariel .II. THE TEMPLE TERRACE OR BULWARK Anti-material teachingCAnti-local teachingC@ The Mountain of the House ACDescription of frontispieceCThe level of Temple siteCClay tablets used in JudeaCThe River of LifeC Watchers in the Temple .III .THE FIRST AND SECOND TEMPLES COMPARED Their sites the sameCHeight of the porchesCTheir basements or foundationsCWidths of chambersCNew structural elementsC The water supplyCOrientation of the entrancesCDistance apart of the two soregsCPolice corridors or walksCThe Elammim or pillarsCEzekiel non-allegorical. APPENDICESI, EZEKIEL=S TEMPLE PLAN: SCHEDULE OF SPECIFICATIONS II. COMPARATIVE TOPOGRAPHICAL NAME- LISTS OF JERUSALEM . III, TABLE OF SECTIONS OF THE WALL OF JERUSALEM. 381 INDEX .Manual of Ancient History by George Rawlinson, MANUAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY, INTRODUCTION, The word >History,= which etymologically means >inquiry= or >research,= and which has many slightly differing uses, is attached in modern parlance pre-eminently and especially to accounts of the rise, progress, and affairs of NATIONS. The consideration of man, prior to the formation of political communities and apart from them, belongs to Natural HistoryCand especially to that branch of it which is called AnthropologyCbut not to History Proper. History Proper is the history of States or Nations, both in respect of their internal affairs, and in regard to their dealings one with another. Under the latter are included not only accounts of the wars, but likewise of the friendly relations of the different States, and of their commercial or other interactions. CONTENTS, INTRODUCTION. History.CHistory Proper, its divisions.CAncient History, how best distinguished from Modem.CSources of History: s. Antiquities; 2. written Records, including (a) Inscriptions, (5) Books.CImportance of Inscriptions.CCoins.C Books, ancient and modern.CCognate sciences to History: 1. Chronology; 2. Geography.CChief eras.CChronological MonumentsCWorks on Chronology.CWorks on Geography.CModes of dividing Ancient History.CScheme of the work . BOOK I. within this comprehensive Volume History of the Ancient Asiatic and African States and Kingdoms from the Earliest Times to the Foundation of the Persian Monarchy by Cyrus the Great , PART I. ASIATIC NATIONS, Preliminary Remarks on the Geography of Asia Is Preliminary Observations on the General Character of the Early Asiatic Kingdoms 22 AHistory of the Ancient Asiatic Kingdoms previous to Cyrus 25 I. Chaldean Monarchy II. Assyrian Monarchy, III. Median Monarchy IV. Babylonian Monarchy V. Kingdoms in Asia Minor: I. Phrygia; 2. Cilicia; 3. Lydia VI. Phoenicia, VII. Syna VIII. Judea a) From the Exodus to the Establishment of the Monarchy b) From the Establishment of the Monarchy to the Separation into Two Kingdoms c) From the Separation of the Kingdoms to the Captivity under Nebuchadnezzar PART II. AFRICAN NATIONS.
Preliminary Remarks on the Geography of Ancient Africa Historical Sketch of the Ancient African States; Egypt a) From the Foundation of the City to the Commencement of the Wars with Syracuse, b) From the Commencement of the Wars with Syracuse to the Breakout of the first War with Rome .BOOK II. within this comprehensive Volume History of Persia from the Accession of Cyrus to the Destruction of the Empire by Alexander the Great - History of the Grecian States from the Earliest Times to the Accession of Alexander the Great .Geographical Outline of Greece First Period.- The Ancient Traditional History, from the Earliest Times to the Dorian Occupation of the Peloponnese; Second Period - History of Greece from the Donan Conquest of the Peloponnese to the Commencement of the Wars with Persia -.PART I. History of the principal Hellenic States in Greece Proper I. Sparta II. Athens Par IL History of the other Grecian Greek Grecque Greque States I. In the Peloponnese a. Achea . 6. Arcadia c. Corinth .d. Elis e.Sicyon II. In Central Greecea.Megzris 6.Bceotia c.Phocis .Locris e.JEtolia/. Acarnania lii. In NorthernGreece a. Thessaly 6. Epirus - IV. In the Islands a. Corcyra 6. Cephallenia c. Zacynthus d. ~gina . e. Eubcna f. The Cyclades g. Lemnos b. Thasos i. Crete j. Cyprus V. Greek Colonies 1. Colonies of the Eastern Groupa. The Anatolian Colonies b. The lonian Colonies c. The Donna Colonies. d. Colonies on the North Coast of the agean - . .e. Colonies of the Propontis f. Colonies of the Euxine ii. Colonies of the Western Group a. Colonies of the fllynian Coast 6. Colonies in Italy c. Colonies in Sicily Gela Camarina Agrigentum Selinus Naxos . Leontini Catana - Zanclé orMessana . . .Himera - . Colonies on the Coasts of Gaul andSpain . .. Colonies on the Coast of Africa . . .Third Period. History of Greece from the Commencement of the Wars with Persia to the Battle of Cberoneia BOOK IV. within this comprehensive Volume History of the Macedonian Monarchy Geographical Outline of Macedonia, Historical Sketch of the Monarchy:First Period.- From the Commencement of the Monarchy to the Death of Alexander the Great;Second Period.- From the Death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Ipsus; Third Period.- History of the States into which the Macedonian Monarchy was broken up after the Battle of Ipsus - History of the Syrian Kingdom of the Seleuciclie History of the Egyptian Kingdom of the Ptolemies; History of Macedonia, and of Greece, from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest; History of the Smaller States and Kingdoms formed out of the Fragments of Alexander=s Monarchy: I. Kingdom of Pergamus, II. Kingdom of Bithynia,  III. Kingdom of Paphlagonia, IV. Kingdom of Pontus, V. Kingdom of Cappadocia, VI. Kingdom of the Greater Armenia, VII. Kingdom of Armenia Minor, VIII. Kingdom of Bactria, IX. Kingdom of Parthia, X. Kingdom of Judea - a) From the Captivity to the Fall of the Persian Empire b).From the Fall of the Persian Empire to the Re-establishment of an Independent Kingdom, c) From the Re-establishment of an Independent Kingdom to the Full Establishment of the Power of Rome, d) From the Full Establishment of Roman Powerto the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus BOOK V within this comprehensive Volume PART I. HISTORY OF ROME Preliminary Remarks on the Geography of Ancient Italy Sketch of the History of Rome :First Period-The Ancient Traditional History from the Earliest Times to the Commencement of the Republic; Second Period-From the Foundation of the Republic to the Commencement of the Samnite Wars; Third Period-From the Breaking-out of the First Samnite War to the Commencement of the Wars with; Fourth Period-From the Commencement of the First War with Carthage to the Rise of the Civil Broils under the Gracchi; . .Fifth Period-From the Commencement of Internal Troubles under the Gracchi to the Establishment of the Empire under Augustus; Sixth Period-From the Establishment of the Empire under Augustus to the Destruction of the Roman Power in the West - Preliminary Remarks on the Geographical Extent and Principal Divisions of the Roman Empire - Historical Sketch of the Roman Empire From the Battle of Actium to the Death of Commodus, From the Death of Commodus to the Accession of Diocletian, From the Accession of Diocletian to the Final Division of the Empire,From the Final Division of the Empire to the Deposition of Romulus Augustus. PART II. HISTORY OF PARTHIA. Geographical Outline of the Parthian Empire - Sketch of the History of Parthia First Period-From the Foundation of the Kingdom by Arsaces to the Establishment of the Empire by Mithridates I; Second Period-From the Establishment of the Empire by Mithridates to the Commence- ment of the Wars with Rome; Third Period-From the Commencement of the Wars with Rome to the Destruction of the Empire by Artaxerxes; APPENDIX.Genealogical Tables:CMacedonian Royal Houses: A. House of Alexander the Great; B. House of Antipater, C. House of Antigonus -Royal House of the Seleucithu; Royal House of the Ptolemies; Royal House of Pergamus; Royal House of Bithynia; Royal House of Pontus; Royal House of Cappadocia; Jewish Royal Houses: A Royal House the Maccabees, B. Royal House of the Herods. IX. Roman Imperial Houses: A. The Julian House,
B. The Claudian House, C. The House of Constantine the Great, D. The House of Theodosius the Great. Parthian Royal Houses: A. The House of Arsaces I - B. The House of Sanatrceces - C. The House of Artabanus II, D. The House of Vonones.
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Ebooks for Checkout, Historical Evidences of the Truth of theScripture Records by George Rawlinson
Lectures Delivered at Oxford University Boston - 1875 - (455 Pages) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE DOUBTS AND DISCOVERIES OF MODERN TIMES. DELIVERED AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY BY GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A., LATE FELLOW AND TUTOR OF EXETER COLLEGE; EDITOR OF ATHE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS,@ ETC. PREFACE. THESE Lectures are an attempt to meet that latest phase of modern unbelief, which, professing a reverence for the name and person of Christ, and a real regard for the Scriptures as embodiments of what is purest and holiest in religious feeling, lowers Christ to a mere name, and empties the Scriptures of all their force and practical efficacy, by denying the historical character of the Biblical narrative. proofs of god, proofs of christianity, christianity and geology, christianity and science, christianity and term paper, christianity and high school, christianity college, christianity facebook, archos, argos, zune, ipod, player, PDF for PDA, PDF for Mobile Phones, PDF for Cellular, German Neology ( which is German Textual Criticism) has of late years taken chiefly this line of attack, and has pursued it with so much vigor and apparent success, that, according to the complaints of German [theologically] orthodox writers, Ano objective ground or stand-point@ is left, on which the believing Theological science can build with any feeling of security.= Nor is the evil in question confined to Germany. The works regarded as most effective in destroying the historical faith of Christians abroad, have received an English dress, and are, it is to be feared, read by numbers of persons very ill prepared by historical studies to withstand their specious reasonings, alike in our own country and in America. The author had long felt this to be a serious and a growing evil. Meanwhile his own studies, which have lain almost exclusively in the field of Ancient History, had convinced him more and more of the thorough truthfulness and faithful accuracy of the historical Scriptures. Circumstances had given him an intimate knowledge of the whole course of recent cuneiform, and (to some extent) of hieroglyphical discovery; and he had been continually struck with the removal of difficulties, the accession of light, and the multiplication of minute points of agreement between the sacred and the profane, which resulted from the advances made in deciphering the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Egyptian records, home school, home school legal defense, home school scholarship, home school hero, He therefore ventured, at the earliest moment which engagements of long standing would allow, to submit to the Heads of Colleges, electors to the office of Bampton Lecturer under the will of the Founder, the scheme of the following Discourses. His scheme having at once met with their approval, it only remained for him to use his best efforts in the elaboration of the subject which he had chosen. Two modes of meeting the attacks of the Mythical School [of Textual Criticism] presented themselves. He might make it his main object to examine the arguments of their principal writers seriatim, and to demonstrate from authentic records their weakness, perverseness, and falsity. Or touching only slightly on this purely controversial ground, he might endeavor to exhibit clearly and forcibly the argument from the positive agreement between Scripture and profane history, which they ignored altogether. The latter mode of treatment appeared to him at once the more convincing to young minds, and the more suitable for a set of Lectures. For these reasons he adopted it. At the same time he has occasionally, both in the Text and in the Notes, addressed himself to the more unimportant of the reasonings by which the [Anti-Christian] school of Strauss and De Wette seek to overthrow the historical authority of the Sacred documents and character of Christianity as contrasted with other religionsC its contact, thence arising, with historical science C its liability to be tried afresh by new tests and criteria, as historic science advances.C Recent advance of historical science C rise of the new department of Historical Criticism C its birth and growth C its results and tendencies. C Application of Historical Criticism to Christianity to be expected and even desired C the application as made C first, by the mythical school of De Wette and Strauss C secondly, by the historical school CNiebuhr himselfC Bunsen. C Intention of the Lectures, to examine the Sacred Narrative on the positive side, by the light of the true principles of historical science. C Statement of the principles under the form of four Canons. C Corollaries of the Canons C comparative value of sources C force of cumulative evidence. C Further Canon which some seek to add on the subject of miracles, examinedC possibility of miracles C contrary notion, Atheistic C peculiarities of the modern Atheism. C Occurrence of miracles proved C creation a miracle C counterfeit miracles prove the existence of genuine ones.C Rejection of the additional Canon leaves the ground clear for the proposed inquiry. C Two kinds of evidence to be examined C 1. That of the Sacred Volume itself, considered as a mass of documents, and judged by the laws of Historical Criticism C 2. The external evidence, or that contained in monuments, in the works of profane authors, in established customs and observances, and in the contemporary writings of believers. C Main purpose of the Lectures, to exhibit the external evidence, klass, klassics, clacciks, LECTURE AND HISTORIC DOCUMENTATION II. Two modes of conducting an historical inquiry C the Retrospective and the Progressive C advantages of each C preference assigned to the, college prep, college preparation, facebooks, myspace,  latter. C Plan of the Lectures C division of the Biblical history into five periods. C History of the first period, contained in the PentateuchC question of the genuineness of the Pentateuch C argument from college preparatory, clep, abreviated classics, historic litterary classics, the unanimous testimony of the Jews C objections answered. C Writing practiced at the time. C Heathen testimony to the genuineness - Internal testimony C difficulties of the opposite theory. C bable , Authenticity of the Pentateuch, a consequent of its genuineness C Moses an unexceptionable witness for the history of the last four books. C Authenticity of Genesis C the events, if purely traditional, would have passed through but few hands to Moses. C Probability that Genesis is founded on documents, some of which may have been ante-diluvian. C External ev