Orientalisms in Bible Lands
Author | : Edwin Wilbur Rice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Middle East |
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Author | : Edwin Wilbur Rice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Middle East |
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Author | : Edwin Wilbur Rice |
Publisher | : Nabu Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
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ISBN | : 9781293518021 |
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Author | : Edwin Wilbur Rice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Middle East |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edwin Wilbur Rice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2015-07-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781331856207 |
Excerpt from Orientalisms in Bible Lands: Giving Light From Customs, Habits, Manners, Imagery, Thought and Life in the East for Bible Students The Book through which the one great religion of the world has come to mankind is thoroughly Oriental. Every part of the Bible is saturated with the peculiar traits, modes of thought, customs, manner of speech, and imagery that characterize Eastern life. A knowledge of these is essential to a clear understanding and right interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. Once it was common to speak of the "unchanging East," as scholars and explorers were wont to do in the last generation. For centuries there was indeed a persistence of the same manners and customs, partly due to the physical characteristics of the lands of the East, and partly to the indisposition of the people for change. That day has passed. There is no portion of the globe where such marvelous and radical changes are going on to-day as in the Orient. In Jerusalem, in Joppa, and in Damascus one sees the railway locomotive, hears the click of the telegraph, and may talk to his distant neighbor through the telephone. Soon it will be impossible for a traveler to discover simple native Oriental Life. Even now it is difficult to find a village or people in any Bible land so remote as to be free from the influences of Western life, which are sweeping through all Oriental countries. Native Oriental customs are already modified by these influences to an extent little suspected by many even of the Orientals themselves. Another common view among the "laity" and learned was that the early biblical narratives described human life in a primitive stage. But we now know that Abraham was "comparatively a modem man," scarcely midway between the present and the infancy of the human race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Edwin Wilbur Rice |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Author | : Edwin Wilbur Rice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Middle East |
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Author | : Rice Edwin Wilbur |
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Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9780259673606 |
Author | : Edwin Wilbur Rice |
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Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Middle East |
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Author | : Henry Baker Tristram |
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Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : K. Pillai |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
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ISBN | : 9781515214670 |
As a convert to Christianity from Hinduism, Bishop Karnam Chengalvaraya Pillai, D.D. came to the Western world on a singular mission: to teach the Eastern culture of the Bible. Although Christianity is generally considered a Western religion, it is important to recognize that the Bible itself was written and set in the Eastern world, and it must be viewed through the light of that Eastern window. It is primarily the area referred to at varying times as the Near East, Middle East, or Orient where the people and events described in the Bible resided. Resultantly, in order to really understand the Bible, one must become knowledgeable of the culture, manners, and customs of the Eastern world. This book opens the doors of enlightenment into the culture that provides the setting for the lives, events, and tenets central to Christianity. It is a book that warrants more than a cursory reading. For the serious students of the Bible, it will occupy an important place in their reference library.