Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. History of Worship: 1. The place of worship; 2. Sacrifice; 3. The sacred feasts; 4. The priests and the Levites; 5. The endowment of the clergy; Part II. History of Tradition: 6. Chronicles; 7. Judges, Samuel, and Kings; 8. The narrative of the Hexateuch; Part III. Israel and Judaism: 9. Conclusion of the criticism of the law; 10. The oral and the written Torah; 11. The theocracy as idea and as institution; Israel.

Promotional Information

This is an 1885 English translation of an 1883 German work examining the history of worship and law in Israel.