Download ebook The Biblical World (Volume 27)

Download ebook The Biblical World (Volume 27)

The Biblical World (Volume 27).cWilliam Rainey Harper

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Author: William Rainey Harper
Number of Pages: 182 pages
Published Date: 13 Jan 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781234945725
Download Link: The Biblical World (Volume 27)
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NOTES FROM JERUSALEM A. GOODRICH-FREER Meadville, Pa. 1. "To raise up the name o] the dead" a modern levirate.--In the autumn of 1902 a Yemenite Jew, with whom I was in friendly relations in Jerusalem, and who was kind in showing me various matters of interest and enabling me to attend family festivals and ceremonies among the Jews, confided to me, as a secret, that there was shortly to be a "repudiation" in a certain community, and that I was to prepare to be called upon suddenly to attend it, as such a thing had not happened for nine years, and it would be a pity to miss it. The special interest of the case lay in the fact that it was not the man who repudiated the duty of marrying his deceased brother's childless wife, but the woman who declined to accept him. This, my friend declared, was an unheard-of scandal, and he assured me that for three years her relatives had sought to bring her to a better state of mind. To escape their persuasions she had even left her home, but had lately been found at Jaffa, and matters had now come to a crisis. Within a few days the pair would certainly be married, or she would be set free to take another husband, which, my informant was of opinion, was what she desired, and wherein the trouble lay. About seven o'clock one morning I was told to prepare to start at short notice, and in an hour we were on our way, I being accompanied by a lady who had expressed interest, though I fancied that my friend Baruch was not particularly pleased at the addition. On entering the colony, a group of men came forward, and hastily, and not too civilly, forbade our entrance, Baruch not being permitted even to explain. We were not even allowed to walk through the colony, but could only remark that the greater part of the population seemed to be...

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