Word: israel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proving, explaining, and proper use and improvement of the principles of natural religion as it is commonly called and understood by divines and learned men." Dr. Gottheil chose as the part of this subject on which he wished particularly to speak the school of natural religion in ancient Israel. The fact, said the speaker, that natural religion was a factor of no mean importance in the growth of revealed religion has hardly been well understood. The Bible used to be thought of as a unity, but modern criticism has shown that it now contains several books which certainly...
...department of Semitic languages and history, course 12 of last year's pamphlet becomes course 11 this year, and what was course 11 last year, the third course in Assyrian, is omitted. Three new historical courses are offered in this department next year covering the history of Israel, history of the Hebrew religions, and history of the Spanish Califate...
...noble men whom we call the prophets were brought forth by the needs of the time. Between the years 775 and 520 B. C., Israel was invaded many times by great armies-first by the Assyrians, then by the Babylonians, and still later by the Persians. At the same time there was great corruption, social and moral, within the Hebrew nation. These men, believing themselves the mouth-pieces of God, kept the old Jewish faith and patriotism alive by denouncing the wretchedness of the rulers and painting the glorious future of the Jewish people. They declared that all the misfortunes...
Amos was one of the first of the prophets. He lived about 750 B. C. in the reign of Uzziah in Judah and of Jeroboam in Israel, in a little town near Bethlehem called Tekoa. It was just before the first Assyrian invasion-a time of great prosperity in Israel. He foresaw that the luxurious habits of the Jews would render them an easy prey to the enemy. The book of Amos consists of four parts: the introduction describing the downfall of many ancient cities because of this corruption, then four prophecies of disaster to Israel, then a series...
...George's Church, New York. The text chosen was taken from the eleventh chapter of Deuteronomy, the tenth, eleventh and twelfth verses, and the sermon was clear, eloquent and comprehensive. In the course of his remarks, Dr. Rainsford said that the lesson that God was teaching the children of Israel was one that all nations should learn, and God has been continually trying to teach this same lesson to the different peoples of the world. The land to which the Jews were going was not like Egypt, where the Nile supplied the place of the toiling husbandman; but a land...