Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia. E-book. Formato PDF William Robertson Smith   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The present edition of Kimézjfi and Ma7riage in Early Améia is no mere reprint of the work, which from its freshness and originality attracted the attention of Semitic scholars and anthropologists in 1885 and laid the foundation of all subsequent research in this department of studies. During the nine years which elapsed between its publication and his lamented death, Robertson Smith had collected additional notes and references in his own interleaved copy, and there were indications that he contemplated the preparation of a second edition, and had even marked out for himself certain features and lines of argument which he proposed to develop.

Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series, the Fundamental Institutions. E-book. Formato PDF William Robertson Smith   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

They had at every point to reckon with them and take up a definite attitude towards them. No positive religion that.