Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series - The Fundamental Institutions - Softcover

Smith, William Robertson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789874653 ISBN 13: 9781789874655

Verlag: Pantianos Classics, 1894

Inhaltsangabe

In this in-depth enquiry, the religion and spiritual traditions of peoples inhabiting the ancient Middle East is investigated by Professor W. R. Smith of Cambridge University.

This investigation concerns the Semitic peoples as a whole, who inhabited several ancient countries in the Middle East. The peoples included in Smith's work include Arabs, Hebrews, Phoenicians, Aramaeans, Babylonians and Assyrians. Since these civilizations neighbored one another, traded, warred, and otherwise interacted, their spiritual beliefs and religions underwent a shared evolution with time. The author tackles the characteristics of ancient faith, establishing a series of commonalities between the ancient Semitic peoples.

Subjects include such rituals as animal sacrifice, and the according of certain sites - typically caves and bodies of water - with a degree of holiness. Religious symbology, mystical creatures such as the demon, plus a variety of moral precepts and taboos, are also discussed at length. The earliest belief systems in the region were polytheistic, consisting of many Gods, who collectively interacted with humankind and aspects of the physical world. It was only later that monotheistic religions - a belief in one God - became prevalent and then dominant in the Middle East.

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William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) was a pioneer of historical criticism in Great Britain. He was educated at the universities in Aberdeen and Edinburgh and was Chair of Hebrew and Old Testament at Free Church College, Aberdeen. Smith was dismissed from Aberdeen in 1881 on a charge of heresy. In 1883 he moved to Cambridge as reader in Arabic and member of Trinity College.

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• Verlag: Pantianos Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1894
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1789874653
• ISBN 13: 9781789874655
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324
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