Identifier: hebrewlifetime00hunt (find matches)
Title: Hebrew life and times
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Hunting, Harold B. (Harold Bruce), 1879-1958
Subjects: Bible Jews
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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aves.The time of treading out the grapes was a festival oflaughter, love-making, and song. And in the rainyseason, after a year of plentiful harvests, when thegranaries and cellars were well stored, there must havebeen many happy days of quiet rest and play in He-brew homes. But most of all, what cheered them on was the hopeof better days to come, when their children at least, ortheir childrens children, would not have to toil quiteso hard or so long each day, and when the danger offamine and starvation would not loom up quite sogrimly as in the old days in the desert when one sum-mer of drought might mean death for all. Here inCanaan, they thought, we will surely be happy byand by. Study Topics i. Explain the following Scripture passages, in thelight of the customs described in this chapter: Isaiah63. 2; Deuteronomy 25. 4; Matthew 3. 12. 2. Psalm 23. 1 draws a great lesson about God fromthe experiences of shepherd life. What lesson aboutGod is drawn from farm life in Isaiah 5. 1—7?
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CANAANITE OR HEBREW PLOWSHARES Cuts on this page used by permission of the Palestine Exploration Fund. CHAPTER VIIIVILLAGE LIFE IN CANAAN The farmers of ancient Canaan all lived in villages.No farmer would have dreamed of building an isolatedhouse for his family on his own field out of sight ofhis nearest neighbor as our American farmers do. Thedanger from robbers would have been too great. Insteadof that, the Hebrew farmer lived in the nearest villageor town. Early in the morning he went out to his field,and in the evening returned to his home inside the pro-tecting village walls. These ancient villages would have seemed to us mostunattractive places. The houses were crowded closetogether. The streets were only narrow crooked lanesbetween the houses. In the rear room of each housewere the stalls of the family ox and ass. The brays ofthe ass were the alarm clock in the early morning.There was no drainage. Garbage was thrown into thestreet. There were smells of all varieties. One is no

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