Lectures On the Religion of the Semites First Series the Fundamental Instituti
Lectures On the Religion of the Semites First Series the Fundamental Instituti
Smith, W. Robertson (William Robertson), 1846-1894
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, Elijah's altar does not seem to be a raised structure, but simply a circle marked out by twelve standing stones and a trench. " Among the Hottentots blood is allowed to men but not to women ; the female sex being among savages excluded from many holy privileges. Similarly the flesh of the Hebrew sin-ofl'ering must be eaten only by males (Lev. Vi. 22 (29)), and among the Caffres the head, breast and heart are man's part (Lichtenstein, p. 451). * Herod. , ii. 39. The olyection to eating the hea...d is very widely spread ; we find it in Bavaria as late as the fifteenth century (Usener, Beligionsgesch. Untersuchiingen, ii. 84). 360 SACREDNESS OF lect. X. the kidneys and the liver, which in the Semitic dialects are continually named as the seats of emotion, or more broadly in the fat of the omentum and the organs that lie in and near it.^ Now it is precisely this part of the victim, the fat of the omentum with the kidneys and the lobe of the liver, which the Hebrews were forbidden to eat, and, in the case of sacrifice, burned on the altar.
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