Lewis Bayles Paton eBooks
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Jerusalem in Bible Times. E-book. Formato PDF
Lewis Bayles Paton
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
During the season of 1903-4 it was my privilege to reside in Jerusalem as director of the American School of Oriental Study and Research, and to carry on special investigations into the ancient history of the city. While thus engaged I was constantly reminded of the lack of a handbook giving in convenient form the...
Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity. E-book. Formato PDF
Lewis Bayles Paton
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
In the fields of Semitic religion and of the religions of Israel, Greece, and Rome, the author has been able to work at first hand from the sources; in the cases of the religions of China, India, Egypt, and some of the Indo European races, he has been obliged to depend upon the researches of others. He has endeavoured...
The Early History of Syria and Palestine. E-book. Formato PDF
Lewis Bayles Paton
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
IN ancient Babylonian usage Suri, from which our name Syria is derived, meant Northern Mesopotamia and the adjacent districts of the Armenian and Taurus mountain chains. In Greek and Roman times it was limited eastward and northward and was extended southward, so that it came to denote the region between the Taurus,...