The Law of Asylum in Israel: Historically and Critically Examined (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The recent course of Old Testament criticism has awakened a new interest in this asylum of the Israelites an interest far deeper than that of mere historical comparison, inasmuch as investigation of the Israelitic asylum now enters into the discussion concerning the literary origin and date of the Pentateuch, to-day one of the foremost questions in Old Testa ment study. Here we find ourselves upon ground as yet almost entirely unbroken. It is only very recently that any thing in this direction could be expected. The Old Testament question, as it now lies before the world, dates only from the early part of the present century and first took tangible shape for the public in Grafs work published in 1866. Since that time it has been more and more urged upon the attention, and has elicited discussion to a greater or less extent at the hands of all investigators in this department. But none of these, so far as their work has come to my notice, make more than incidental references to the Israelitic asylum. An investigation of this subject as a Pentateuch study will not, then, be a thankless task.

The historical comparison forms a natural foundation for a critical examination. It will be my aim in the follow ing treatise to institute a comparison between the asylum of the Israelites. And that of other nations especially of the Greeks and to deduce the critical conclusions of such comparison.

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