Hebrew Life and Times

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hebrew Life and Times, by Harold B. Hunting This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Hebrew Life and Times Author: Harold B. Hunting Release Date: April 17, 2006 [EBook #18187] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HEBREW LIFE AND TIMES *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document. HEBREW LIFE AND TIMES HAROLD B. HUNTING ABINGDON-COKESBURY PRESS NEW YORK NASHVILLE Copyright, MCMXXI, by HAROLD B. HUNTING All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America [3] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE FOREWORD 7 I. SHEPHERDS ON THE BORDER OF THE DESERT 9 II. HOME LIFE IN THE TENTS 15 DESERT PILGRIMSIII. 22 A STRUGGLE AGAINST TYRANNYIV. 28 A GREAT DELIVERANCEV. 34 FROM THE DESERT INTO CANAANVI. 39 LEARNING TO BE FARMERSVII. 44 VILLAGE LIFE IN CANAANVIII. 49 KEEPING HOUSE INSTEAD OF CAMPING OUTIX. 55 MORAL VICTORIES IN CANAANX. 60 XI. LESSONS IN COOPERATION 66 XII. EXPERIMENTS IN GOVERNMENT 70 THE NATION UNDER DAVID AND SOLOMONXIII.