The Scriptural Religions, Histories, and Prophecies Analyzed and Examined Volume 1; Are Incredible Narratives of Jews to Be Treated with More Respect ... Narratives of Other Authors? If So, Why? - Softcover

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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.1876 Excerpt: ... all the interpolations and disfigurements, shews that he was not an Adonite chief. He introduces an ephod which causes great distress in the levitical mind, and though he mostly resides at his old farm at Ophrah, he not only marries a native wife, but maintains the temple of Baal in Shechem throughout the whole period of his rule. It might be said that his non-interference with the temple of Baal-Berith, was in deference to his new subjects or the passing caravans. But the making of an ephod was manifestly the institution of a worship different from that of Adoni. That worship was instituted at Ophrah, somewhat inconsistently with the story of his overturning the altar of Baal. And Gideon made an ephod thereof--i.e., of the golden earrings weighing 1,700 shekels of gold (321b. 3oz., worth £1,551 6s.) and the ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment, that was on the emirs of Midian, and the chains that were about the camels' necks. This ophod then, does not mean merely a cassock, but the institution of an endowed priesthood, although the amount of gold is probably exaggerated. And ho put it in his city even in Ophrah--establishing, contrary to all Adonite notions, a sanctuary there. And all Israel went thither a whoring after it; which thing became a snare unto Gideon and his house. Could this be the altar which Gideon built for the metainoiphic angel? His offence is similar to that of Jeroboam, in withdrawing the worship from the Adinite shrine at Gilgal, or Shiloh, or wherever it happened then to have wandered. He did not send Adoni a bullock or a sheep, in acknowledgment of his victories. Miracles.--Here we may begin to trace a vein which runs through the scriptures, Cfiristian as well as levitical; the demand of a sign. Gideon is described as dema...

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