The book The Social Legislation of the Primitive Semites was written by author Henry Schaeffer Here you can read free online of The Social Legislation of the Primitive Semites book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Social Legislation of the Primitive Semites a good or bad book?
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Friendliness among neigh- bors, and the necessity of defense against enemies, produced alliances between several tribes, and finally there resulted a union of all or nearly all the tribes of IsraeL Then only could there have been formed a general gathering ^f delegates, an 'Am of the land, our 'Am ha-ares," Polity of Ancient Hehrews, p. 3; cp. 58-59, 76, 79. Cp. Schurer, Gesch. d. Jud. Volkes* I, 400, n. 54. "22:29. "Zech. 7:9*, 10. Digitized by Google 148 THE S0CIA1> LEGISLATION to the long-co...ntinued prevalence of violence and fraud in spite of the old prophetic demand for right- eousness between man and man. *I will draw near you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness . . . against those who defraud the hireling, the widow and the fatherless and against those who abuse the stranger^® and who do not fear me, saith Yahwe Sabaoth/«o The social problem, as viewed by the prophets, resolves itself, for the most part, into a question of property in land. The appropriation of tribal and other lands by the king was regarded as one of the curses of the monarchy.®^ This explains Elijah ^s attitude toward King Ahab, alluded to in 1 Kings 21.
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