Hours with the Bible; From Creation to the Patriarchs

by Cunningham Geikie

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 ... therefore say, that to give the name of Shemites to the races who spoke a tongue related to the Hebrew is contrary to the idea of Genesis, and bears in itself a 1' a1.e historical principle." As to the idea that the national hatred of the Cannanites led to their being assigned to Ham as their origins', he shows that this hatred never led the Jews to disown tribes like M oab, Edom and Ammon, and that instead of hatred to Phenicia, there was friendship, culminating in the alliance between it and the kings of Judah. He " Besides the inhabitants of Central und Northern Mesopotamia, all those people were reckoned Semitic who had spread from these parts, especially those who wandpred to the south and southwest." If the reader wish to pursue the subject further, he will find it ably discussed in the arts. Plwnizien, by Kneucker, and Kanaan, by Dillmann, in the Bibel Leaz. of Schenkel; in Hirzig's Geschichte lies Vollces Israel, p. 26; in Knobel's Viilkertafel, p. 805; in Knobel's Genesis, on the chapter; in Riehm's Handwerm-buch, ' Von Bohlen's Genesis; Herzog's Em-ylclopzidie, etc. 'I Schrader's Keilinschrlften, pp. 27, 31. They extended from the Euphrates to Asia Minor. triumph over the united forces of the race, reckoned his greatest achievement, is celebrated in lofty verse on no less than six different monuments and temples. But though the name be thus famous, the Hethites of Palestine, if of the same stock, must have been only a very limited and comparatively feeble tribe.1 At the time of Abraham they lived at Hebron, and in that of Moses are found with the Amorites and Jebusites in the hillcountry of Epraim and J udah," while under Solomon they were compelled to do forced...

144 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

John Cunningham Geikie was a minister and author. He worked as a Presbyterian missionary in Canada. In 1860 he returned to the U.K. and held a Presbyterian minister position at Sunderland and at Islington Chapel. In 1876 he was ordained deacon in the Church of England and priest next year. He was curate of St. Peter's, Dulwich (1876–79), rector of Christ Church, Neuilly, Paris (1879–81), vicar of St. Mary's, Barnstaple (1883–85), and vicar of St Martin at Palace, Norwich (1885–90). In 1890 he retired for health reasons.