Abstract
“THE unique importance of the people of Israel,” says M. Lods, “is due to its religion”; but he adds that the study of the origin and development of that religion depends upon the success of a number of preliminary or subsidiary investigations. He therefore surveys the archaeology, history and social, cultural and religious development of Palestine under three main heads: first, of the people who inhabited the area before the settlement of the Hebrews; secondly, of the Hebrews themselves before they entered it; and thirdly of the Hebrews after the settlement, when the two streams of cultures had coalesced to produce the characteristic Hebraic system prior to the micldle of the eighth century before our era.
Israel: from its Beginnings to the, Middle of the Eighth Century.
by Prof. Adolphe Lods. Translated by Prof. S. H. Hooke. (The History of Civilization Series.) Pp. xxiv + 512 + 16 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1932.) 25s. net.
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Anthropology and Archæology. Nature 131, 315 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131315a0
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