Studies in Oriental Social Life : : and Gleams from the East on the Sacred Page / / H. Clay Trumbull.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Trumbull, H. Clay,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Kiraz Theological Archive
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (455 p.) :; 30

Trumbull’s tome was among the first to explore how looking at the Bible from the perspective of those in Palestine might influence the outlook of Western readers. In this volume Trumbull examines the social customs, religious practices, and basic concepts of those living in nineteenth-century Palestine to demonstrate how they bear upon modern understandings of the Bible.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- THE PAST IN THE PRESENT -- BETROTHALS AND WEDDINGS IN THE EAST -- HOSPITALITY IN THE EAST -- FUNERALS AND MOURNING IN THE EAST -- THE VOICE OF THE FORERUNNER -- PRIMITIVE IDEA OF " THE WAY." -- THE ORIENTAL IDEA OF "FATHER." -- PRAYERS AND PRAYING IN THE EAST -- FOOD IN THE DESERT -- CALLS FOR HEALING IN THE EAST -- GOLD AND SILVER IN THE DESERT THE -- THE PILGRIMAGE IDEA IN THE EAST -- AN OUTLOOK FROM JACOB'S WELL -- THE SAMARITAN PASSOVER -- LESSONS OF THE WILDERNESS -- INDEXES