Moriah or Sketches of the Sacred Rites of Ancient Israel
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780766134034
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Israel; Ancient - General; Middle East - Israel; History - General History
First sentence: IT has pleased the Author of our being, that a large portion of that knowledge of himself which is derived from the material world, should be obtained by the instrumentality, not of the direct rays of the sun, to which our eyes are ill-adapted, and which dazzle and blind us, but by means of indirect rays reflected from terrestrial objects, and so modified and subdued as to be perfectly suited to the delicate mechanism of our organs of vision.