Anthropological Essays Presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in Honour of His 75th Birthday, Oct. 2, 1907Northcote Whitridge Thomas Clarendon Press, 1907 - 416 pages |
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Page 131 - desirable to do so for a time. Far-fetched as this idea may appear to us, it may seem natural enough to the folk and to their best interpreters the poets : / sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee As giving it a hope that there It could not
Page 135 - steal ; thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour ; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.' l If we ask which of these two discrepant versions of the Decalogue is the older, the answer cannot be doubtful. It
Page 87 - as an outlaw by any one who met him. God is represented saying to him: ' What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand ; when thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee
Page 120 - Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh unto this day : because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.' 1 The story is obscure, and it is probable that some of its original features have been
Page 135 - Thou shalt honour thy father and mother ; thou shalt do no murder ; thou shalt not commit adultery ; thou shalt not steal ; thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour ; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.
Page 134 - 6. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. 7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. 8. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
Page 101 - of the Canaanites, which Israel was commanded to destroy " upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree " (Deut. xii. 2). Just as in the time of Moses, so now, the position chosen for the
Page 108 - slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
Page 108 - here referred to is no doubt the sacrifice of children to Moloch. Jeremiah alludes to the same practice in a passionate address to sinful Israel : ' Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: I
Page 134 - 1. Thou shalt worship no other god. 2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 3. All the firstborn are mine. 4. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest.