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Two Treatises on the Accentuation of the Old Testament

Religion & Spirituality

William Wickes

Judaism

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1865. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... mira, &ftrj. c. The immolation of the victim, as a sacrifice, zebach ha petach, on the fourteenth of Nisau at evening; [literally, beyn ha-arbayim, "between the two evenings;" Onkelos, beyn shemshaya, "between the suns;" Peschito, b'amarobai shemisho, "at the passing over of the sun:" all these forms of expression, as well as a similar one among the Arabians, being idioms for " the afternoon," or the interval between the passing of the sun from the meridian and his final disappearance below the horizon. Among the Hebrew commentators, Kimchi, Raschi, and, before them, Saadja Gaon coincide in this view. The Talmud more narrowly defines "the first evening" as the time when the heat of the day begins to abate, towards the close of the afternoon, about three hours before sunset, at which latter " the second evening" begins.] d. Some of the blood, on the first Passover in Egypt, was sprinkled with a bunch of hyssop on the mezuzoth, "two side-posts," and on the mashekoph, or "lintel" of the door. e. It was roasted entire, on two spits thrust through it, the one lengthwise, the other transversely passing the longitudinal one near the fore legs; the two spits taking thus the form of a cross, f. It was eaten as a family meal with suitable guests, g. It was eaten with unleavened bread, mattsoth, and with merorim, "bitter herbs," the tokens of the affliction they had endured in the house of bondage. The festival was prolonged during the week, with the modified name of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Chag hammatssofh, eoprrj ra>v a^vfuav. (Exod. xiii. 6, 7.) The term Passover is given to the entire feast, and in common parlance to eat the unleavened cakes was to "eat the passover." (Deut. xvi. 3. Compare Luke xxii. 1, and John xviii. 28; where "passover" does not ...

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J. W. Etheridge

Christianity and Judaism are so intertwined in their origins and destinies that neither can be understood without the other. Every attempt to cut Christianity off from its Old Testament roots is doomed to failure. Similarly Christianity helps the Jews to understand the composite nature of Judaism prior to A.D. 70, some of the tendencies in which came to fulfilment only in Christianity.

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Oesterly, W.O.E.

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Preuss, Julius

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