author: john alexander selbie

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics

... darkness . This was a region which the sun , living or dead , could not pierce . A better fate for departed spirits , some if not all , was also conceived of - symbolized , e.g. , in the recovery of Tammuz from the under world ... Book of the ...

A Dictionary of the Bible, Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and Contents, Including the Biblical Theology: A-Feasts

... tau tend to lose their distinctive bars . At the same time the script ... codex , the A. of which is given in col . 7 , dates from the beginning of ... 8th cent . The earlier forms are better , because the letters are free from useless ...

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics

... Mothers prepare food and a bed for a dead child in much the same way . On ... death and burial customs . It was explained later that it was not customary ... makers and rain - making . - The rain- maker is the most important man in each ...

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics: Mundas-Phrygians

... pronunciation is often in question , since , as in the Semitic script , only the consonants are written . With the help of the writings of these foreign names in the cuneiform literature , where the vowels are always given , they can be ...

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics

... the energy of omnipotent redeeming love . We time - determined conscious nesses cannot pretend to understand God ; but we know Him with an estimate that is sure and pierces the inevitable mists of time . God is love . This we know . For ...

A Dictionary of the Bible: A-Feasts

... tau tend to lose their distinctive bars . At the printed Bibles is thus one ... 8th cent . -the Aramaan by the mercantile classes and the The earlier forms ... codex , the A. of which is given in col . 7 , dates from the beginning of the ...

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics

... 3 says that in Gaul men who were suffering from serious illness , or who ... cheats , as ignorant as vile , Weave their long frauds the simple to beguile ... Caesar's time , as in the time of Posidonius , who was the chief authority of ...

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