Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net * * * * * +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Notes: | | | | Italicized text surrounded by _text_ | | Bolded text surrounded by =text= | | | | A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected | | in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of | | this document. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ HEBREW LIFE AND TIMES HAROLD B. HUNTING ABINGDON-COKESBURY PRESS NEW YORK NASHVILLE Copyright, MCMXXI, by HAROLD B. HUNTING All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE FOREWORD 7 I. SHEPHERDS ON THE BORDER OF THE DESERT 9 II. HOME LIFE IN THE TENTS 15 III. DESERT PILGRIMS 22 IV. A STRUGGLE AGAINST TYRANNY 28 V. A GREAT DELIVERANCE 34 VI. FROM THE DESERT INTO CANAAN 39 VII. LEARNING TO BE FARMERS 44 VIII. VILLAGE LIFE IN CANAAN 49 IX. KEEPING HOUSE INSTEAD OF CAMPING OUT 55 X. MORAL VICTORIES IN CANAAN 60 XI. LESSONS IN COOPERATION 66 XII. EXPERIMENTS IN GOVERNMENT 70 XIII. THE NATION UNDER DAVID AND SOLOMON 76 XIV. THE WARS OF KINGS AND THE PEOPLE'S SORROWS 82 XV. A NEW KIND OF RELIGION 88 XVI. A NEW KIND OF WORSHIP 94 XVII. JEHOVAH NOT A GOD OF ANGER 99 XVIII. ONE JUST GOD OVER ALL PEOPLES 103 XIX. A REVISED LAW OF MOSES 108 XX. A PROPHET WHO WOULD NOT COMPROMISE 114 XXI. KEEPING THE FAITH IN A STRANGE LAND 120 XXII. UNDYING HOPES OF THE JEWS 127 XXIII. THE GOOD DAYS OF NEHEMIAH 134 XXIV. HYMN AND PRAYER BOOKS FOR THE NEW WORSHIP 140 XXV. A NARROW KIND OF PATRIOTISM 146