| 单词 | Semite |
| 例句 | Starting around 1700 B.C., though, Semites familiar with Egyptian hieroglyphs did begin to experiment with that logical step. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Aristotelian system was Greek, but the Judeo-Christian story of creation was Semitic—and Semites didn’t have such a fear of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Along with the North African origins of Semites and the origins of Madagascar’s Asians, that’s another conclusion that we couldn’t have reached without linguistic evidence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Denying that he was an anti-Semite, Fischer pointed out with a smirk that Arabs were Semites, too: “And I am definitely not anti-Arab, okay?” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She published “Songs of a Semite” and dedicated the book to George Eliot, whose novel “Daniel Deronda” hit her with the force of revelation. Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z “All peoples of the Mediterranean were Semites,” he said. Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “It must be an anti- Semite,” he says. The improbable story of the man who won history’s ‘biggest murder trial’ at Nuremberg 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z “Semites” are nearly eradicated; systematic extermination is an ongoing, “necessary” measure; and American culture has been reduced to an “indigenous,” “ethnic” curiosity. Visions of a Nazi America: How “The Man in the High Castle” both sharpens and blurs the lines between “us” and “them” 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z “What Nazi/ Anti Semite ever did this for Jewish people or Israel?” Trump calls out ‘liberal Jews who voted to destroy America’ in post on Jewish New Year 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z "The truth that we should spread to the world is that European Jews are not Semites. They have nothing to do with Semitism," he said. Outrage over Abbas's antisemitic speech on Jews and Holocaust 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z The idea of Semites as a racial tribe or group, much less one with identifiable racial features, is invalid and outdated. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A haunting photograph from Afghanistan that spoke volumes 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Some Cockburn supporters wore shirts emblazoned with “Semites for Leslie,” an attempt to push back on allegations, based on a book she co-authored that was highly critical of Israel, that she is anti-Semitic. Resistance to Trump vs. bipartisanship: Starkly different missions drive Virginia congressional hopefuls 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z His book “Semites and Anti-Semites” depicts Islam as anti-Jewish from its inception. Bernard Lewis was the doyen of Orientalists 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z “Clearly, one of the greatest Anti Semites of our time!” Trump calls out ‘liberal Jews who voted to destroy America’ in post on Jewish New Year 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z "As for the Eastern Jews, they are Semites," he added, referring to Sephardic Jews from the wider Middle East. Outrage over Abbas's antisemitic speech on Jews and Holocaust 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z And I thought, if Ethiopians and Russians could join that way, why not, eventually, Semites and Semites, Jews and Arabs? Benjamin Netanyahu's Disgrace in Victory 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Jews, Abyssinians, Somalis and some other ethnic groups are Semites, too. Yair Lapid: An Interview with Israel's New Power Broker 2013-02-01T08:05:22Z D., F. R., S. E., says in his work on ancient Egyptian history, that these Hyksos or Shepherd Kings were Semite people. The Black Man, the Father of Civilization Proven by Biblical History 2012-04-24T02:00:16.783Z Yet since there is no evidence that it has ever been known in India, Western Asia, and perhaps the region inhabited by the Semites, may be considered, at least tentatively, its first home. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z But public expectation has been doomed to disappointment this time, for the Yo Semite is much inferior to its predecessor, though, in several respects, both works show the same characteristics in equal perfection. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z "Ah when the crafty Tyrian came to Spain To barter for her gold his motley wares, Treading her beaches he forgot his gain, The Semite became noble unawares." Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Arabs are not "related" to Semites, they are Semites. Yair Lapid: An Interview with Israel's New Power Broker 2013-02-01T08:05:22Z Now, during this period, Jacob and his twelve sons and their families moved from Canaan to Egypt, and other Semite or whites from Asia did likewise, because the white man had begun to rule Egypt. The Black Man, the Father of Civilization Proven by Biblical History 2012-04-24T02:00:16.783Z In this way the region on the Tigris, afterwards called Assyria, was reached and peopled by the Semites. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z The most conspicuous landscape in this room is Bierstadt's immense view of the Yo Semite Valley in California, No. 436, which occupies the place of honor in the middle of the south wall. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He takes up a History of the Semites. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z The Semite, having once accepted a goal is hard to divert. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Besides the names of west Semitic deities, however, the names of west Semites themselves occur, and show that there was a considerable immigration in those ancient days into the country. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Its youth beheld the Semite on Irish coasts a guest, Whose manhood saw the empire of the C�sars sink to rest In its old age, as a patriarch sinks silently to rest. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z Of the vocabulary it must not be forgotten that none of the Hamitic tongues remained untouched by Semitic influences after the separation of the Hamites and Semites, say 4000 or 6000 B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z What a pertinacious fellow he is," alluding not to any ancient Semite but to the Author, "how closely he sticks to his point! The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z All these elementary spirits, these elohim of the air, the earth, the waters, were so similar to each other that the thought of the Semite never succeeded in discerning and discriminating them. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Patricia Crone, of America’s Institute for Advanced Study, once argued that Islam originated in a revolt by Semites against Byzantine and Persian power. Muslims and the Koran: In the beginning were the words 2011-12-28T16:03:36Z It was this violent change, which brought to a Semitic tribe liberation for its fellow Semites. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z The highly complicated syllabarium of the Eastern Semites is reduced to a phonetic system; we might almost say to an alphabet of about 40 letters. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z The Arabs belong to the great family of nations which on account of their supposed descent from Shem, the son of Noah, are commonly known as the 'Semites.' A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Unlike the Semites, the Indo-Europeans were not satisfied with these two genders, masculine and feminine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Semite and Aryan had been unconscious instruments in the hands of God for the spread of a religion which, in its first beginnings, both alike detested and despised. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z The religion of the Semite was essentially different from that of the Sumerian. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z This application of the terms of relationship is characteristic of the Semites. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z I think there is no doubt that this repugnance to miracle is one reason why the Semites eventually rejected Christianity. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z They were chiefly made to the sun, and were, in general, not unlike those made by the Semites. The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru 2011-06-13T02:00:26.863Z The Ethiopian has also served the Semite, as Noah predicted. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z When we have surveyed the earlier centuries, we shall revert to this question, and show how far the prejudice in favour of the Semite has ousted the Greek from his rightful place. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Another branch gave origin to the Northern Semites, who made their way into Palestine and Mesopotamia. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Like the Egyptians, the Semites regarded the pigeon with veneration. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The blending of Armenoids and Arabians in Syria produced 'the hybrid race of Semites'. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z It was communicated to the Semites west of the Euphrates at different times and in different ways. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The bow, the typical weapon of the Semites and the mountainous people to the east, was unrepresented. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z He trumpeted wrathfully and beat about dangerously with his trunk whenever a Semite or camel approached him. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z It is their analogue, and to understand it we must understand them, not forgetting that Paul, as a Semite, and his hearers, as converted pagans, were imbued with the sacrificial ideas of the old world. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The Greeks were becoming serious rivals to the Semites upon the sea, and their detached and vigorous intelligence made them useful and, unprejudiced officials. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Professor Hommel hints that even the Hebrew Yahveh may once have been a title of the moon-god among the Western Semites of Babylonia. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The Semites are found not as barbarian invaders, but as a highly cultivated people. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Their successors, the Semites, who followed them from Asia, spread all over the northern and eastern sections of the continent. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The power that uplifted Aryan and Semite did not come from without, but from within. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z But the Semites had come into Sumeria for good and all, the two races assimilated and the Babylonian Empire became Semitic in its language and character. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Wherever the pure Semite is found, this belief in the anthropomorphic character of the deity is found also. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Thus, although the general view is to regard the Sumerians as the autochthones and the Semites as the later intruders in Babylonia, the Semitic character of the Sumerian gods points to an opposite conclusion. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The whole country was occupied by a variety of tribes, speaking agglutinative dialects for the most part, though the western districts were occupied by Semites. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z In the early history of south-western Asia the Semites form the most important ethnic group, which is primarily linguistic but also shares other remarkable characteristics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Rome triumphed over Carthage, but the rivalry of Aryan and Semite was to merge itself later on in the conflict of Gentile and Jew. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z At any rate the Semite made his god in the likeness of men, and taught, conversely, that men had been made in the likeness of the gods. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z O. Procksch, however, while regarding the origin of the Semites as an unsolved problem, considers Arabia as their centre of dispersal rather than their original home. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z At an early period Semites filtered into the valley. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Certain animals and vegetables are taboo, i.e. too holy, or—what among Semites and others was the same thing—too defiling and unclean, to be eaten. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Amongst the Semites the altar was primarily the place where the victim was slaughtered, and amongst the Indo-Germanic peoples the place where it was burnt. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide To the Western Semites of Arabia and Mesopotamia it came through Ur, and consequently set the moon-god at the head of the divine hierarchy. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z On this assumption South Arabia would necessarily be the first home of the Semites, who in later times spread thence north and east. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z African ancestry, and that the nomad Arabs were Arabs only by adoption, and were nearer akin to the true Semite as sons of Ishmael. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Among the Semites and Tatars worshippers lacerate themselves before the god. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" It seems extremely probable that these Chaldaean Semites were so strongly influenced by the foreign civilization as to adopt it eventually as their own. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" But with the arrival of the Semite, and the consequent transformation of the goblin into a god and of the sorcerer into a priest, a new conception was introduced of the divine nature. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z In the first place is to be considered the very narrow area occupied by the Semites, both absolutely and relatively to the domains of the other fundamental ethnical groups. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Certainly the inhabitants of Yemen are not, and in historic times never were, pure Semites. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" The connexion between Carthage and Phoenicia is more certain, and the ancient Abyssinian kingdom was founded by Semites from south Arabia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The superior development of Aryans and Semites is, perhaps, attributable to the copious meat and milk diet of both races, more especially to the favorable influence of such food on the growth of children. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State The triumph of the gods of light and order over the monsters of chaos symbolised not only the birth of the present creation, but also the theological victory of the Semite over the Sumerian. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z At what period the Semites first invaded Babylonia, when and where they first attained supremacy, are not yet matters of history. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The Arabs are at once the most ancient as they in many ways are the purest surviving type of the true Semite. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Shortly after that period Babylonia was invaded by Semites, who became the ruling race. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" This seems at least established for the historic nations of the old world, for Aryans and Semites. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State But the gods of Babylonia, in the days when the Sumerian and the Semite had become one people, were stern judges. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z From the monuments we learn that the Babylonian Semites had full beards and wore their hair long, contrasting sharply with the shaven Sumerians, and thus gaining the epithet "the black-headed ones." Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Perhaps it was connected with the communistic ideas of the Turanian race, and their conflict with the patriarchal habits of the Semites. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science It seems quite evident that the city of Assur was originally founded by Semites from Babylonia at quite an early, but as yet undetermined date. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Some of the most advanced tribes—Aryans, Semites, perhaps also Turanians—devoted themselves mainly to taming, and later to raising and tending, domestic animals. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State The difference is racial: wherever we find the Semite, in all periods of his history, his gods are human and not made in the form of the beast. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z But we are no more called upon to believe that the "Caucasic" peoples originated in the Caucasus, than that the Semites are all descendants of Shem or Hamites of Ham. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The fall of Carchemish meant the final triumph of the Semites in their long struggle with the Hittite stranger. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Thus “Semite,” “Libyan,” &c., but cannot stand by itself for the name of any particular foreign people. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" It appears that the taming and raising of animals and the formation of large herds gave rise to the separation of Aryans and Semites from the rest of the barbarians. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State But the Semite, though he moulded the later religion of Babylonia, could not transform it altogether. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z But he points out also that there is an equally close relationship linking the Proto-Egyptians with the populations to the east, from the Red Sea as far as India, including Semites as well as Hamites. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Merodach was originally the Sun-god, and when Babylonia passed into the hands of the Semites he still continued to be worshipped, as the interceding god who hears prayers and “raises the dead to life.” Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments The Semites were not like the Aryan nations, who beheld the essence of their gods in the phenomena of nature such as light, rain, thunder, and lightning,—and gave them corresponding names and titles. Jewish Theology Among the early Arabs the female idea held no small place in their religious beliefs and practices, and this is true of the early Semites generally. Oriental Women Sumerian grammar was genderless; there was no distinction in it between masculine and feminine, and the divine names of the Sumerian pantheon could consequently be classified by the Semite as he would. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z His measurements of "the only real Semites, the Bedawy," gave a cephalic index ranging from 68 to 78, while the nose was short and fairly broad, very seldom of a "Jewish type." Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The inventors of the cuneiform system of writing had been a people who preceded the Semites in the occupation of Babylonia, and who spoke an agglutinative language utterly different from that of their Semitic successors. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Hence the name for God among all the Semites is El—“the Powerful One.” Jewish Theology The Semites of the XIIth Dynasty wore on their journeys sandals of black leather, those of the women and children being more serviceable, and, in the case of women, parti-coloured. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The mixed races of Babylonia had overcome the purer Semites of Assyria, Istar had prevailed against Assur, and Semitic monotheism sought a home in the further West. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Can the ear fail to hear, or the eye fail to see Thy rich crown! thy sweet song! great Yo Semite? Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation A curious fact connected with Ishtar, which proves that she had developed from an original divinity, conceived as dual or bi-sexual, is that among Semites Ishtar appears both as a male and female deity. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Their emphasis of the social solidarity of religion is truly in remarkable contrast to the religious individualism of the Semite. Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms The Semites who visited Egypt wore a larger and coloured cloth, ornamented with parallel stripes of patterns similar to those found upon some early specimens of Palestinian pottery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The gods worshipped by the Semite were Baalim or “Lords,” like the men whom they protected, and whose creators they were believed to be. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z In accordance with the genius of the Semite, then, God was pictured as a monarch whose very will brought forth without effort. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Yahwe becomes the first and mightiest, and is identified with El, the supreme god of the Semites, whose individuality is vague. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations The Babylonians and the Hebrews were Semites, originally dwelling in a common home. The Christian View of the Old Testament Thus animal includes man, dog, horse, etc.; man includes Aryan, Semite, etc.; Logic, Inductive and Deductive The Semites called him the Nabium or “Prophet,” and it was under this title of Nabium or Nebo that he became the minister of Merodach. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Besides works directly bearing on the Bible, he wrote two important books on Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia and on The Religion of the Semites. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The Religion of the Semites, though masterly in plan and execution, and though it 321 has excited the admiration of the few Oriental scholars competent to appraise its substantial merit, suffers from its incompleteness. Studies in Contemporary Biography True, there are points of contact; indeed, strange it would be if there were none; for, like the Babylonians, the Hebrews were Semites. The Christian View of the Old Testament To the Semites of Babylonia and Kanaan, the gods alone were immortal, and immortal beings would be gods. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal But the doctrine was known also in Babylonia, where the god whose word is creative was Asari, the Merodach of the Semites. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Influences Coming from the Far East.—The early inhabitants of this country have sometimes been called Turanian to distinguish them from Aryans, Semites, and other races sometimes called Hamitic. History of Human Society We find it in perfection only amongst the Semites, whose finer organisation, indicated by their musical supremacy, enables them to catch the still small voice inaudible to our grosser ears. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) It was really turning from Greeks to Semites, from philosophy to religion, from a school of very sober professions and high performance to one whose professions dazzled the reason. Five Stages of Greek Religion "Tell those Semites that they can have those six girls if they can take them away from me." Astounding Stories, February, 1931 The god and his name were alike borrowed by the Semite from his Sumerian predecessor. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Far to the northwest were the Armenian group of Semites, and directly east on the shores of the Mediterranean were the Phoenicians. History of Human Society The Hebrews seem to have been alone, among the Semites, in adopting monogamy, at least in general practice. Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex These deities, it will be noticed, are all masculine; but it is not to be supposed that the Semites had no goddesses. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems For these and other reasons, Khalid separates himself from his Semite fellow peddlers, and makes this time a bigger move than the first. The Book of Khalid But a time came when the Sumerian was supplanted by the Semite. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z In due course, according to this authority, Syria and Babylonia were conquered by the Semites, while the Aryans became masters of Europe, Asia Minor, and India. The Empire of the East We are as yet so imperfectly acquainted with the onomastics of the nations surrounding the Semites that it is hazardous to attempt to locate these people. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters But the worship of which blood is the tie is not to the Aryan, as to the Semite, the whole of religion. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems By these Italians, Slavs, and Semites she was more closely scrutinized than she had been elsewhere. The Dust Flower It was in Northern Babylonia that the Semite first predominated. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z On the other hand, the fact that the Semites—or at least the northern Semites—distinguish between the holy and the unclean, marks a real advance above savagery. Introduction to the Science of Sociology It was from the Persian tradition that Professor Müller borrowed the term which is now generally used to denote those northern races of Asia that are neither Aryans nor Semites. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 It is not, however, peculiar to the Semites, but is characteristic of the religion of the early world in general. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems At four o'clock on the afternoon of August 5th, we started for Sacramento, on the steamer Yo Semite. Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California The king was a god only so long as he was a Semite, or subject to Semitic influence and supremacy. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z One point here is particularly far-sighted—the severe watchfulness against all animism, spiritualism, worship of the dead, things in which the environing world of the Jews' fellow Semites was steeped. Progress and History We have still stronger reasons of the same kind for affirming that the Shemites or Semites occupied an important place in Chaldæa from the very beginning. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 It was formerly held that the Semites were an exception, having never passed through the totemistic stage. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems It has been suggested that Amenophis got his idea from Semites of Western Asia or particularly from the Hebrews. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV It was essentially Semitic in its character, and illustrates that intensity of belief which made the Semite sacrifice all he possessed to the deity whom he adored. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z “May Moloch give your Lordship ten thousand children,” called back the mollified Semite. A Victor of Salamis And yet the Semites of Chaldæa were not without myths relating to the abode of departed souls of which some features may be grasped. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 While the early Semites believed in the continued existence of the departed, they thought of them as beings quite destitute of energy, as "shades laid in the ground," and did not worship them. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Gradually a more precise localization of qualities was made by the Semites, Greeks, Romans, and other peoples. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The Sumerian might indeed speak of the “Zi”—“the spirit”—of Ea, or rather of the deep, but to the Semite he was a veritable god. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The primitive Semites had a markedly anthropomorphic idea of their deities. The New Theology Indeed Sumerian continued to be the language of religion and law long after the Semites had become the ruling race. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The Semites in fact had their share of the inheritance the whole world has derived from the earliest times, of prehistoric religious sites and objects. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems In fact certain ideas and customs that occur in connection with savage totemism are found abundantly among ancient Semites, Greeks and Romans, and in Celtic and Teutonic lands. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV On the lips of the Semite even the word Zi itself meant “life” and little more. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The Semites thought that the life of any organism was in the blood. The New Theology Arrival of the Semites.—When the Semites first entered the Semitic Influence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" From what has been said the character of sacrifice among the Semites is readily understood. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems The local gods represent the clannic and tribal organization, to which the Semites appear to have clung with peculiar fondness. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV When the Semite succeeded to the heritage of the Sumerian, the sexless Lil disappeared. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Probably the Philistines were not Semites, but no doubt ancient worship in general took for granted this community of life between any particular people and their deity. The New Theology Sumerian in its turn borrowed from Semitic Babylonian, and traces of Semitic influence in some of the earliest Sumerian texts indicate that the Semite was already on the Babylonian border. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" It will be found that the Aryan draws a less absolute distinction than the Semite between the human and the divine. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems However this question may be answered, it remains true that the Semites show little disposition to work out this line of thought. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV For the Semite the woman is the lesser man, formed out of him and dependent upon him. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It seemed to be assumed that, by a curious coincidence, Russia possessed not only the very worst Anti-Semites but the very best Semites. What I Saw in America It was in the north, however, that the Semites first appear on the monuments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" To the Semite God is, broadly speaking, a master, or Lord, whose word is a command, in regard to whom man is a subject, a slave. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Belief in a general kinship of men and animals existed among Semites, Greeks, and Romans. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The title had been given him by the Semites, though the sanctuary in which he was worshipped was of Sumerian or non-Semitic foundation. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z He was a Semite; he declared it with pride, beating his chest: "The greatest people in the world!" The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The influence exerted by the Babylonian-Assyrian religion was particularly profound on the Semites, while the astral theology affected the ancient world in general, including the Greeks and Romans. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Thus the Semites have as many gods as they have clans; and these gods do not greatly differ from each other. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems An ethical god of the other world appears not to have been created by the Semites. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The union of Sumerian and Semite created the Babylonian with whom we have to deal, just as the union of Kelt and Teuton has created the Englishman of to-day. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The Semite has been and still is the priest to all Arya, by the deepest necessity of the spirit. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary A doubt also still exists in regard to a number of names of the older period because of the uncertainty whether their bearers were Sumerians or Semites. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" It is such a system as we found that of the Semites to be, with certain peculiar developments, of which we have already seen something in our chapter on Babylonia. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, lecture ii, and the various stories of the birth of Jupiter's children. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The lil which had been pictured under animal shape put on human form, and the Sumerian accepted the conviction of the Semite, that man was made in the likeness of his god. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It was a long, terrible time, a wandering not on the water, like the sea-faring Hellene, but in the wilderness and desert, like the sand-faring Semite. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary At times too a doubt may exist in regard to a name whose bearer was a Semite, whether the signs composing his name represent a phonetic reading or an ideographic compound. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" It is possible to define to a certain extent the typical religion of the Semites. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Ishtar also is the mother of all things, but the idea is not developed by the Semites. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV One of these, usually termed Sumerian, spoke an agglutinative language, and came, perhaps, from the mountainous regions of Elam; the other were the Semites, whose first home was, I believe, in Arabia. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z In this way, Judaraber are more inclined to think like Semites and less like those in Christendom. Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) But a time came when the Semite had absorbed the culture of his Sumerian teachers and had established kingdoms of his own in the future Babylonia. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs So far the assertion that the Semites are naturally monotheists is true; but the same is true of all totemistic or clannish communities. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems According to them, there was only one immigration in the land of Shumir and Accad, that of the Semites, achieved through many ages and in numerous instalments. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria But the influence of the Semite was already beginning to be felt, though indirectly, through maritime trade. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Amongst the old Semites it was not the custom for a man to eat with his wife and children. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals In this respect nothing can be more significant than the changes undergone by the name and worship of the goddess Istar, when they were carried from Babylonia to the Semites of the West. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs The Semite has a smaller range of ideas, but he applies them more practically and more thoroughly. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems But at some time or other Semites came and settled in Shushinak. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria Between him and the Semitic Baal-shamain, “the lord of heaven,” the distance was but slight, and it was not difficult to clothe him with the attributes which the Semite ascribed to his supreme deity. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The ancient peoples in general, and the Semites in particular, did not think this passion an honorable or trustworthy basis of marriage. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The Semite improved upon the heritage he had received. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs Religion admits with the Semite of less compromise, and is less affected by fancy, than with the Aryan; it is, in fact, a more practical matter. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems The more northern region, Accad, is, indeed, more thinly peopled; there the tribes of Semites, who now arrive in frequent instalments, spread rapidly and unhindered. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria Are the Semites still characterized by the same gifts and tendencies of mind and heart, ruled by the same passions, subject to the same limitations, as were their ancestors in all their generations? Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil The Semites adopted the world philosophy which lies back of human sacrifice and incorporated it with their religion, which thereby became gloomy and ferocious. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The Sumerian and the Semite had become one people. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs This is specially plain in the sacrifices of the Semites, as Mr. Robertson Smith has shown. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Man delved and built and span; Then wandered South and West The peoples Aryan, I journeyed in their van; The Semites, too, confessed,— From Beersheba to Dan,— I am a Merry Jest. The Book of Humorous Verse But a new "Hep Hep" was wanted, and so "Semites" was hauled from the world of books, disfigured, and fastened upon the Jewish gabardine in noble emulation of the barbarism of the Middle Ages. Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil There arose amongst the Israelites, in the tenth century B.C., an opposition to the religion which was common to the west Semites. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The fact makes it often difficult for us to determine whether the princes of primitive Chaldea whose inscriptions have come down to us were Semites or not. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs When we first see them, they are not, like the gods of the western Semites, lords and masters, characters taken from human families; they are not husbands and fathers but creators and universal powers. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems If they were Semites, why didn't they bury? Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales The Being in whom that fulness of light was revealed,—was he not a Semite of the Semites? Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil The so-called Mosaic system superseded an older system of mores common, as it appears, to all the Semites of western Asia. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals It was from the Sumerian that the Semite learnt to live in cities. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs None of the great Stoics were natives of Greece proper; Zeno himself was a Semite. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield If they were Semites, why didn't they write? Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales The ancient Semites believed therefore that the divinity could be regarded as embodied in the waters, in the fire of the lightning, in stones or plants. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism It belongs to all—to the Hindu, the Greek, the Slav, the Teuton, the Celt, the Semite, and the savage. Folklore as an Historical Science The Babylonian race was mixed; Sumerian and Semite had gone to form it in days before history began. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs As regards the original Semite or 5th sub-race ethnologists have been somewhat confused, as indeed it is extremely natural they should be considering the very insufficient data they have to go upon. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria If I had known better, I should have said "a Semite" or "an Israelite," or—his own phrase—"a Mosaic Arab," and all would have been well. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography This detail, which we know by chance, shows how considerable a proportion of Semites there was in the gangs working the fields, and how much authority Atargatis enjoyed in the rural centers. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism It is quite peculiarly necessary to keep in mind that this Semite god haunted Christianity like a ghost; to remember it in every European corner, but especially in our corner. A Short History of England When contact with the Semites had introduced the idea of a god among the Sumerians, it was still under the form of a spirit that their powers and attributes were conceived. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs It must be remembered that by the time the Semites rose to power hundreds of thousands of years had passed and the 2nd map period had been reached. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria Such plays on names are characteristic of the Semites, and indeed in a measure are common to all ancient nations, to whom the name always meant much more than to us. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Its original culture was always hostile to such an assimilation as that experienced in different degrees by the Aryans of Phrygia, the Semites of Syria and the Hamites of Egypt. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism The argument as to the clan and the veneration of the domestic animal follows that outlined by the late Professor Robertson Smith in The Religion of the Semites. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Already, before contact with the Semites, they began to assume the attributes of gods. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs It was in the third map period, about 100,000 years ago, that the Akkadians finally overthrew the Semite power. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria Secondly, even in the oldest inscriptions found, there occur Semitic words and Semitic constructions which prove that the inscriptions were composed by Semites. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria In such cases it corresponds to קרש, which to the Semites is the epithet par excellence of the divinity. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Following the line of reasoning of a remarkable essay of Renan, he shows very clearly that the modern Jews are far from being pure Semites. Historical and Political Essays The result was that while the Semite encouraged his hair to grow, the Sumerian shaved it except in the case of old men. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs The Semites and Akkadians were also to a certain extent colonizing races. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria Not many years ago the impression appeared to be well founded that the Semites were poor in the production of myths and legends as compared, for example, to the Hindus or Greeks. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The Semites have their Jehovah, the Mohammedans their Allah, and the Christians the Goddess Mary, the God the Father, and a son Jesus. The Necessity of Atheism Beyond these tells which guard the frontier of the Semite border, the Poncht-é-Kouh does not contain a single ruin. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 But this was more especially the case among the Semites, who were a bearded race. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs This idea was still further materialized and degraded by the Semites into a strictly anthropomorphic Trinity consisting of father, mother and child. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria The swine and the dog are illustrations of this double nature of sanctity among the Semites. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria From all this it seems fair to conclude that the religion of the oldest forefathers of Israel had its root originally in one and the same soil with the religion of the other Semites. A Comparative View of Religions The aversion to barbarism also co-operated here, in so far as Gnosticism delighted in mysterious words borrowed from the Semites. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) The Semite gave the Sumerian his gods with their priests and temples and ceremonies. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs Their descendants eventually became subject, at least nominally, to the Semite kings. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria The belief, therefore, in this power of the dead was common to Babylonians and Hebrews, and, no doubt, was shared by other branches of the Semites. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The worship was most simple, and, as was the case with the ancient Semites, the Indians of the Veda, and the Greeks, as yet independent of temple service and priestly constraint. A Comparative View of Religions The more vivid and profound the church consciousness is in a Christian, the more vividly and profoundly does he feel himself, I shall not say a philo-Semite, but truly a Semite in spirit. The Shield Unlike the gods of the Semites, the “spirits” of the Sumerian were not moved by human passions. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs These four, though differing considerably from each other, have been called "yellow," and this colour may appropriately define the complexion of the Turanian and Mongolian, but the Semite and Akkadian were comparatively white. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria This work is a valuable investigation of the oldest form of the poetic compositions of the Semites. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Religion appears in another form among the Semites in the worship of the stars among the Babylonians and ancient Arabians. A Comparative View of Religions Moreover, as we approach the Near East, cradle of the masonic system, we find the Semitic influence not only of the Jews but of other Semite races directing the lodges. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements The Semite and the Sumerian intermingled with one another; at first the Semite received the elements of culture from his more civilized neighbor, but a time came when he began to give something in return. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs They fought with the Semites in many battles both on land and sea, and very considerable fleets were used on both sides. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria We do not know who originated it; nor can the question be as yet definitely answered, whether those who originated it spoke the Babylonian language, or whether they were Semites at all. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Out of an earlier nature-religion there developed among the Semites the conception of Baal, the lord of nature, and of Molech with his inhuman worship. A Comparative View of Religions Jews and Arabs are at any rate both Semites and may be expected to have certain ideas in common, but to place a highly civilized Aryan race under Semitic control is another matter. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements But among the Semites he became the young and beautiful shepherd, the beloved of Istar, slain by the boar's tusk of winter, or, as others held, of the parching heats of the summer. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs The original Semites, who were a quarrelsome marauding and energetic race, always leant towards a patriarchal form of government. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria As long, therefore, as no traces of purely non-Semitic inscription are found, we cannot go beyond the Semites in seeking for the origin of the culture in this region. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria For a feast is not complete without flesh, and in early times the rule that all slaughter is sacrifice was not confined to the Semites. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan In spiritual matters Europe owes a balance of indebtedness to Asia, and by far the greater part of it to the Semites. The Age of the Reformation The Semite addressed his god as Baal or Bel, “the lord.” Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs "A felicitous combination of the German, the Sclave, and the Semite, with grand features, brown hair floating in artistic fashion, and brown eyes in spectacles." In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World So far as we know, neither Aryan nor Semite ever depended upon a hunting and fishing stage. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 So little intermixing of races has there been that the Arabs of to-day, like those of the time of Abraham, are Semites. Hebrew Life and Times Among the Semites, even when they have partially accepted the dogma, it was and is unproductive. Myth and Science An Essay The talent, maneh, and shekel were originally weights, and had been adopted by the Semites from their Sumerian predecessors. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs Like the majority of the Semites they were a race of nomadic shepherds. History Of Ancient Civilization The Semite, the Indian and the Japanese experience only the rapture of the senses; and gratification, restlessly revolving round itself between enjoyment and exhaustion, is condemned to eternal sterility. The Evolution of Love With Greek and Semite and Indian the conscience of man revolted against the moral indifference of nature. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work As a hammer god, he was imported by the Semites from the hills. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The Jew, on the contrary, thanks to a kind of prophetic sense which renders the Semite at times marvellously apt to see the great lines of the future, has made history enter into religion. The Life of Jesus Later, between the twentieth and twenty-fifth centuries B.C. came bands of martial shepherds who had spread over all Europe and the west of Asia—the Aryans and the Semites. History Of Ancient Civilization We find it among the Egyptians and Semites, in Asia Minor, in Greece, Italy, and among the Kelts. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 After long wars backward and forward, bringing us well within the range of history, the Persians proved too powerful for the whole Semite group. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 It is possible that this conception was popularized by the Semites. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Among all the tribes of the nomadic Semites, that of the Beni-Israel was already chosen for immense destinies. The Life of Jesus The Aryans and the Semites.—There is no clearly marked external difference between the Aryans and the Semites. History Of Ancient Civilization Consider the shades of meanings among such word-groups as thief, peculator, defaulter, embezzler, burglar, yeggman, robber, bandit, marauder, pirate, and many more; or the distinctions among Hebrew, Jew, Israelite, and Semite. The Art of Public Speaking Babylonia is invaded by a race of Semites; they conquer the land and become the Babylonians of history. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Professor Elliot, on Sumerian origins, 7; on origin of Semites, 10; on conquest by Akkadians of Sumerians, 12; on first use of copper, 12; on early Egyptian invasion of "broad heads", 263, 264.Smith, Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The Babylonians of that period, although they did not speak the tongue known to modern linguists as Chaldee, did certainly employ a Semitic or Aramaean dialect, and so far may be set down as Semites. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Similarly, we call Semites those peoples who speak a Semitic language: Arabs, Jews and Syrians. History Of Ancient Civilization Smith, in the Religion of the Semites,9 emphasizes, as the fundamental conception of ancient religion, "the solidarity of the gods and their worshipers as part of an organic society." Preaching and Paganism What comparative philology tells is this: An early, if not the original, home of the Aryans was in Asia, to the eastward of the Semites, probably in the mountain district back of modern Persia. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 But the Semites were strongly reinforced by new settlers of the same blended stock who swarmed from the land of the Amorites. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria That the latter people were Semites has never been denied; and, indeed, it is a point supported by such an amount of evidence as renders it quite unassailable. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. But even if we use the terms in this sense, one may say that all the greater peoples of the world have been Semites or Aryans. History Of Ancient Civilization Such a view of the history of Israel affords every opportunity for the connecting of the history and religion of Israel with those of the other Semite stocks. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant It is a peculiarity of Semitism: a Semite is never satisfied with anything; the more you give him the more he wishes to have. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) Other Semites, however, who came as traders, bringing wood, stone, and especially copper, and formed communities in cities, may well have influenced Sumerian religious thought. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria We cannot study Africa without, however, noting some of the other races concerned in its history, particularly the Asiatic Semites. The Negro They became similar to the other Semites of Syria. History Of Ancient Civilization Then, too, there came another great outburst of Semite religious enthusiasm. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 The Aryans and Semites, while both dissatisfied with polytheism and seeking the one among the many, moved along different paths and did not reach exactly the same goal. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Although most Semites are recognizable by their flowing beards, prominent noses, and long robes, some have so closely imitated the Sumerians as to suffer almost complete loss of identity. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The earliest Semites came to Africa across the Red Sea. The Negro That was the position assumed by Robertson Smith in The Religion of the Semites, which appeared in 1889. Recent Developments in European Thought Now once again the Semites, far more dangerous because in the full tide of the religious frenzy of their race, threatened to engulf the Aryan world. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Their ideas are juster than those of Europeans and Semites in so far as they imply a sense of the distribution of life throughout immensities of time and space. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Greece was supposed to have received its great goddesses from the western Semites, who had come under the spell of Babylonian religion. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Ingersoll is taking a rest from his persecutions of the Creator, and is traveling in the Yo Semite region of California. Peck's Compendium of Fun Scandinavians, Greeks, and Semites up to a certain stage were as unethical as the Celts in this respect, and the Christian hell, as conceived by many theologians, is far from suggesting an ethical Deity. The Religion of the Ancient Celts There is yet another Nemesis—the postulate that Aryans and Semites, or rather their ancestors, must have passed through the savage state. Modern Mythology Moreover, the Semites of Babylonia and of Canaan belonged to the same race, and that meant a community of inherited religious ideas. Patriarchal Palestine The Philistines were then confined to a restricted area on the seacoast, where they fused with the Semites and ultimately suffered loss of identity. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria "The Turks are surely Semites," he might say 12,000 years hence, and "their language is intermediate between Arabic and our modern 6th Race dialects." Five Years of Theosophy The Semites are often considered the worst offenders in the matter of human sacrifice, but in this, according to classical evidence, they were closely rivalled by the Celts of Gaul. The Religion of the Ancient Celts I really do not know who says that the prehistoric ancestors of Aryans and Semites were once in the same stage as the ‘negroes of the West Coast of Africa are to-day.’ Modern Mythology The Semites of Babylonia themselves had already begun the work of transformation. Patriarchal Palestine In the same ancient family are included the Arabs, whose physical characteristics distinguish them from the Semites of Jewish type. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Among the old Semites it was not the custom for a man to eat with his wife and children. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Robertson Smith, Religion of Semites, second edition, p. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society The ancestors of the Aryans and Semites enjoyed no such advantages. Modern Mythology The "city" had been a Sumerian creation; until brought under the influence of Sumerian culture, the Semite had been contented to live in tents. Patriarchal Palestine The Semites of Akkad were probably the conquerors of the more highly civilized Sumerians, who must have previously occupied that area. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The ideas 'unclean' and 'holy' seem to us to stand in polar opposition to one another, but it was not so with the Semites. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism The Aryan and the Semite are of the same blood and origin, but when they quitted their central land they were ordained to follow opposite courses. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Fontenelle, I own, speaks of Greeks, not Semites, as being originally savages. Modern Mythology The introduction of the new script was due probably to the Hittite invasion, which separated the Semites of the West from the Semites of the East. Patriarchal Palestine Sumerian civilization was rooted in the agricultural mode of life, and appears to have been well developed before the Semites became numerous and influential in the land. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The importance of recognizing the special sense in which the word "unclean" is used in this connection was clearly pointed out by Robertson Smith in the case of the Semites. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism The barrier that had existed for seven centuries between the Semites of the east and west was removed, and the last relic of the Hittite conquests in Syria passed away. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations Semites dwelt in the south and the centre, while colonies from beyond the Taurus occupied the north. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History But though it was not used by the Egyptians, it had been a beast of burden among the Semites of Arabia from an early period. Patriarchal Palestine This change may be accounted for by the presence of the Semites in northern Babylonia. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The point is elaborated in the same author's Religion of Semites, second edition, Appendix on "Holiness, Uncleanness, and Taboo," pp. 446-54. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism The northern invaders sundered the Semites of the West from those of the East. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations The most important were the Semites, who spoke a dialect akin to Armenian, Hebrew and Phoenician. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History But the name of Jacob was well known among the northern Semites. Patriarchal Palestine It would appear that among the Semites and other nomadic peoples woman was regarded as the helpmate rather than the companion and equal of man. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria It was marked even among the heathen Arabs, as among Semites and old civilizations generally; we must not be deceived by the occasional examples of immodesty in individual cases. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism The Semites who had absorbed the government of the country were expelled or slain; their weaker brethren, the Israelites in Goshen, were enslaved. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations For once intellect told, and the rough drinkers, with a pang of shame, vied with one another in pressing bitter beer upon the temperate Semite. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Words which the Semites of Babylonia had borrowed from the older Sumerian population of the country were handed on to the peoples of Palestine. Patriarchal Palestine Another Semite named Yanhamu not only had control of the storehouses of grain in the eastern part of the Nile Delta, but also directed the Egyptian rule of Palestine. The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History Mr. Robertson Smith has pointed out, again, the manner in which the different political development of East and West affected the religion of Greece and of the Semites. The Making of Religion The Semites entered upon the inheritance, adopting, modifying, and improving upon it. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah and the ancestor of the Gentiles, as distinct from the descendants of Shem, or the Semites, and of Ham, or the Hamites. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge In the earliest times which we can historically reach the Israelites were semi-nomadic tribes, slightly distinguishable from their kindred Semites. The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible Thus, for example, according to contemporary records, during the reign of the great reformer king, Amenhotep IV, several Semites rose to positions of great authority. The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History It is apparently a form of the common Tammuz or Adonis story of the Semites. The Egyptian Conception of Immortality The change was hastened by contact with the Semite. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations The Semites habitually spoke of the liver and kidneys and surrounding fat as the seat of emotion and of life. Bushido, the Soul of Japan The story of Jonah, like many similar stories in the Old Testament, was probably known to the Semites centuries before it was employed by the author of the book to point his great prophetic teaching. The Makers and Teachers of Judaism The Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Phoenicians, the Jews, the Arameans, the Chaldeans, all of them Semites, had been the rulers of western Asia for thirty or forty centuries. The Story of Mankind When we examine this new idea, the Osiris belief, we find its earliest form nothing more nor less than the common tammuz or Adonis story of the Semites. The Egyptian Conception of Immortality The Semite brought with him a new religious conception. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations I do not know how the Semites found Ashtaroth's ritual; to them it may well have been more rapt and passionate than it seemed to me. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies The one force throughout Semitic history that has bound together tribes and nations and made the Semite an almost invincible fighting power has been religion. The Makers and Teachers of Judaism For recent and more accessible statements for the general reader, see Robertson Smith's admirable Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, Edinburgh, 1889, pp. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom He was aware, of course, of his good looks, but with the shy self-consciousness of the Anglo-Saxon, not the blatant complacency of the Latin or Semite. Beasts and Super-Beasts Moreover, in one important point the Semite borrowed from the Sumerian. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations Five of these racial stocks have been mentioned: Bushman, Negro, Hamite, Semite, Libyan, the last three probably related through some common ancestor. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 That was at a time when the Egyptians, when the Assyrians, and other Semites, were running to artistic riot. The Damnation of Theron Ware These were early subjected to alien influences, the greatest of which, before the coming of the Roman, was the advent of the Semite. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate Whether they were Sumerians, or Semites, is not certain; their inscriptions do not settle the question. Outline of Universal History They were Semites with the inborn religious spirit which is characteristic of the Semite, and they were also a mixed race. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations These combined and highly developed characteristics of mind and nature at least suggest why the Semites have furnished the greatest prophets and prophet nations for the moulding of the faith of the world. The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament At the head of all stood the white races, Aryans for the most part, but with the Semites—Chaldeans, Phoeniceans, Hebrews, Carthaginians, Arabs—as a subdivision. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 The strongly-marked Semites always excepted, there is not a man or woman among the saloon passengers who strikes me as a foreigner, a person of alien race. America To-day, Observations and Reflections The elevation of a foreigner and a Semite to an exalted office is thought to be less improbable in connection with a Semitic dynasty. Outline of Universal History At one time it seemed as if the Semites of the east and west were to be permanently sundered from one another. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations That the same conception was familiar to the older Semites appears from the Bible. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day On an outline map indicate the areas occupied in antiquity by Semites and Indo-Europeans. Early European History The Semites are unquestionably a great race, for among the few things in this world which appear to be certain, nothing is more sure than that they invented our alphabet. Endymion Later,—before the time of Hammurabi; see below,—these Semites carried their settlements northward, and became the founders of Assyria. Outline of Universal History For many centuries the Semites and the people of the north contended for the possession of the Syrian plains. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations A new invasion of Arabian Semites, the Aramaeans, whom he attacked at Mt. The Ancient East The Semites mingled with the Sumerians and adopted Sumerian civilization. Early European History But the Semites now exercise a vast influence over affairs by their smallest though most peculiar family, the Jews. Endymion The Sumerians, who preceded the Semites in the occupancy of Babylonia, were of an unknown stock. Outline of Universal History The Canaanites were Semites in speech, if not in blood. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations Assyria, as has been said, was without doubt weak at this date, that is, she was confined to the proper territory of her own agricultural Semites. The Ancient East Because of differences in language, scholars have divided the White or Caucasian race into two main groups, called Indo-Europeans and Semites. Early European History There is another great race which influences the world, the Semites. Endymion It is probable that both the Sumerians and the Semites, each in their own way, attempted to commemorate an appalling disaster of unparalleled magnitude, the knowledge of which, through tradition, was common to both peoples. The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh Like the Hittites in Syria, the Mitannians appear to have descended from the north upon the cities of the Semites, and to have established themselves in them. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations Even the south Semites of Babylonia had had to acknowledge the superior power of the newcomers and, probably, to accept a kind of vassalage. The Ancient East The Semites in antiquity included the Babylonians and Assyrians, the Hebrews, Phoenicians, and Arabs. Early European History A certain inherent gayety of heart, a philosophy which was not so sternly vigorous as was that of the Semite, lent color to his imagination. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 The exact period of the reign of this king is unknown, but there is no doubt that he lived and ruled at Erech before the conquest of Mesopotamia by the Semites. The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh The Babylonians of Abraham's age were Semites, and the language they spoke was not more dissimilar from Canaanitish or Hebrew than Italian is from Spanish. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations The Persians appeared from the Back of Beyond, uncontaminated by Alarodian savagery and unhampered by the theocratic prepossessions and nomadic traditions of Semites. The Ancient East The Egyptians were painted red, the Semites yellow, the Negroes black, and the Libyans white, with blue eyes and fair beards. Early European History Carthage was a Phoenician, a Semite state; and hers was the last, the most gigantic struggle made by Semitism to recover its waning superiority, to dominate the ancient world. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) Having entirely exhausted the Yo Semite, he is now at work on a grand picture of a Southdown Ewe, and will soon commence a view of his studio,—at sunrise. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 The Babylonian conquerors of Canaan were Semites, and the art and trade, the law and literature they brought with them were Semitic also. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations It should be remarked that our evidence, that other Syrian Semites had taken to writing in scripts of their own, begins not much later at various points—in Shamal, in Moab and in Samaria. The Ancient East Although most of the Arabs were idolaters, yet some of them recognized the "Unknown God" of the Semites, Allah, the Creator of all things. Early European History I am Aryan and Semite, Roman and Teuton: alike I have known the galley and the palm-set court of kings. The Warriors Assyrians were Semites, and as such they possessed the deep religious spirit that has always distinguished the peoples of this family. General History for Colleges and High Schools The Semites of Syria had succeeded in rolling back the wave of Hittite conquest, and in absorbing their Hittite conquerors. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations For it was one of the two determining causes of an increase in the influence of Hellenism upon the Western Semites, which issued ultimately in the Christian religion. The Ancient East The original home of the Semites is believed to have been Arabia. Early European History Not only the same moral and intellectual nature, but the same primitive institutions, are found in all the races that come under our view; they appear alike in Teuton, Celt, and Semite. Lectures and Essays The religion of the Semites was a form of Sabæanism,—that is, a worship of the heavenly bodies,—in which the sun was naturally the central object of adoration. General History for Colleges and High Schools But the Semites were not the first occupants of Babylonia. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations Such were the dangers which, as we now know, lurked on the horizon of the Northern Semites in 800 B.C. The Ancient East And they could all see the point except an owl that come from Nova Scotia to visit the Yo Semite, and he took this thing in on his way back. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 01 Surely a juster judgment may find a sublimity in this age-long march from the clod toward the millennium that could never belong to the spectacular but very provincial myths of the Semites. Problems of Conduct When the Accadians and the Semites intermingled, their religious systems blended to form one of the most influential religions of the world—one which spread far and wide under the form of Baal worship. General History for Colleges and High Schools Out of this mixture of Sumerians and Semites there arose a mixed people, a mixed language, and a mixed religion. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations The present dividing line of peoples which speak respectively Arabic and Turkish marks the Semite's immemorial limit. The Ancient East Ensued a chorus of complimentary palaver touching the infinite superiority of the Aryan over the Semite, but the point was in no wise yielded. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 The sovereignty of the world was beginning to pass out of the hands of the Semites into those of the Aryans. Prolegomena One may wonder how the morality of those tawny Semites was enabled to graft itself upon your alien white-skinned race with such tenacity as to influence your whole national development. South Wind In both blood and language they differed considerably from the Semites of the north. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations The marshes of its south-west, the tropical plains of the centre and the mountains on the east, made it a difficult land for the northern Semites to conquer and hold. The Ancient East The vowels the Semite and the Saxon know not. Ulysses Where the original conception arose is doubtful; whether in Babylon, in Canaan, or in a land where the common ancestors of Phoenicians and Babylonian Semites formed an original unit. From Ritual to Romance All determinations confirm the Biblical account of their primitive residence in the same country with the Hamites and Semites. Atlantis : the antediluvian world The main part of the population of Syria and Mesopotamia was Aramæan—that is to say, it consisted of Semites from Arabia who spoke Aramaic dialects. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations These Semites possessed a literature and script which they largely borrowed from the older non-Semitic races in the localities where the posterity of Thare and Abraham settled. The Interdependence of Literature Among the Semites of Western Asia the king, in a time of national danger, sometimes gave his own son to die as a sacrifice for the people. The Golden Bough "Sa'lab" among the Semites is locally applied to either beast and we can distinguish the two only by the fox being solitary and rapacious, and the jackal gregarious and a carrion-eater. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 I have shown in the chapter in relation to Peru that all the languages of the Hamites, Semites, and Japhethites are varieties of one aboriginal speech. Atlantis : the antediluvian world His force diminished, his numbers lessened, and the subjugated Semite increased in strength. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations Man delved, and built, and span; Then wandered South and West The peoples Aryan, I journeyed in their van; The Semites, too, confessed,— From Beersheba to Dan,— I am a Merry Jest! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 Similarly, perhaps, among the Semites any man who sent his daughter to swell the royal harem may have been allowed to call himself “the father of the god.” The Golden Bough We understand this from the way the use of the ax, millstone, or animal sacrifice expanded, along with the appropriate vocabulary and linguistic expression, from the universe of the Semites to the Indo-Europeans. The Civilization of Illiteracy All these qualities are perhaps not conspicuous in all the branches of the Semites, but the majority of them will be found united in all, and in some the combination would seem to be complete. History of Phoenicia Thick and fleshy lips, arched nose, black hair and eyes, and white complexion, distinguish the pure-blooded Semite. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations Equally uncertain is the date of the entry of the Semites, whose language ultimately displaced the non-Semitic Sumero-Akkadian idioms, and whose kings finally ruled over the land. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria At the time of the later Semites there had been more than one complete break in the tradition and the historical setting of the old story had become dim. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition Man delved, and built, and span; Then wandered South and West The peoples Aryan, I journeyed in their van; The Semites, too, confessed, - From Beersheba to Dan, - I am a Merry Jest! Rhymes a la Mode It is primarily on account of their language that the Phoenicians are regarded as Semites. History of Phoenicia But this or such was Bleistein's way: A saggy bending of the knees And elbows, with the palms turned out, Chicago Semite Viennese. Poems In accordance with the same idea, the day, with the Semites, began with the evening, the time when the moon became visible, and thus becomes the offspring of the night. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria In spite of his proto-Semitic strain, the ancient Egyptian himself never became a Semite. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition The Semites as a ruling race came later, though the occurrence of Semitic names in the Sumerian Dynastic List suggests very early infiltration from Arabia. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition The utmost endeavour of the Semites is to join words together so as to form a sentence; to join sentences is an effort altogether beyond them. History of Phoenicia The idea was naturally not repugnant to the Semites, and it need not surprise us to find the very words of the principal Sumerian Creator put into the mouth of Marduk, the city-god of Babylon. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition During the third millennium before Christ Semites, bearing Semitic names, and called Amorites, appear, and probably formed the last considerable stratum of tribes of that race which entered the land. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria For instead of being composed in Semitic Babylonian, the text is in Sumerian, the language of the earliest known inhabitants of Babylonia, whom the Semites eventually displaced. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition It was but to be expected that the conqueror, whether Sumerian or Semite, should represent his own god's victory as the establishment of order out of chaos. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition In such material products the eye at once detects the Semite's readiness to avail himself of foreign models. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition Indeed, in the whole course of her history the only race that bade fair at one time to oust the Semite in Syria was the Greek. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition |
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