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Ancient Arabia is the home of that branch of the white race known as the Semitic. Here on the fertile fringes of well-watered land surrounding the great central desert lived the Phoenicians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and the Canaanites who, before the Hebrews, inhabited Palestine. So little intermixing of races has there been that the Arabs of to-day, like those of the time of Abraham, are Semites. The Hebrew people are an offshoot of this same Semitic group. They began their career as a tribe of shepherds on the border of the north Arabian desert. The Arab shepherds of to-day, still living in tents and. | 1 CHAPTER PAGE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX Hebrew Life and Times 2 CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI CHAPTER XXXII 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 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 --------------------------------------- Transcriber s Notes 1111 Italicized text surrounded by text 11 Bolded text surrounded by text 1111 A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected 11 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 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 3 CHAPTER PAGE FOREWORD 7 I. SHEPHERDS ON THE BORDER OF THE DESERT 9 II. HOME LIFE IN THE TENTS 15 III. DESERT PILGRIMS 22 IV. A STRUGGLE AGAINST TYRANNY 28 V. A GREAT DELIVERANCE 34 VI. FROM THE DESERT INTO CANAAN 39 VII. LEARNING TO BE FARMERS 44 VIII. VILLAGE LIFE IN CANAAN 49 IX. KEEPING HOUSE INSTEAD OF CAMPING OUT 55 X. MORAL VICTORIES IN CANAAN 60 XI. LESSONS IN COOPERATION 66 XII. .