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Title: The Historians' History of the World in Twenty-Five Volumes, Volume 2
Israel, India, Persia, Phoenicia, Minor Nations of Western Asia
Author: Various
Editor: Henry Smith Williams
Release Date: May 28, 2016 [EBook #52177]
Language: English
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THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD
CHEYNE
THE HISTORIANS’
HISTORY
OF THE WORLD
A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations
as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of
all ages: edited, with the assistance of a distinguished
board of advisers and contributors,
by
HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, LL.D.
IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES
VOLUME II—ISRAEL, INDIA, PERSIA, PHOENICIA,
MINOR NATIONS OF WESTERN ASIA
The Outlook Company
New York
The History Association
London
1905
Copyright, 1904,
By HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS.
All rights reserved.
THE TROW PRESS
201-213 E. 12TH ST.
NEW YORK
U. S. A.
Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.
Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin.
Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France.
Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University.
Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Michigan.
Prof. David H. Müller, University of Vienna.
Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris.
Capt. F. Brinkley, Tokio.
Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin.
Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University.
Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg.
Prof. Albert B. Hart, Harvard University.
Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society.
Dr. James Gairdner, C.B., London.
Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz Möllendorff, University of Berlin.
Prof. H. Marczali, University of Budapest.
Dr. G. W. Botsford, Columbia University.
Prof. Julius Wellhausen, University of Göttingen.
Prof. Franz R. von Krones, University of Graz.
Prof. Wilhelm Soltau, Zabern University.
Prof. R. W. Rogers, Drew Theological Seminary.
Prof. A. Vambéry, University of Budapest.
Prof. Otto Hirschfeld, University of Berlin.
Dr. Frederick Robertson Jones, Bryn Mawr College.
Baron Bernardo di San Severino Quaranta, London.
Dr. John P. Peters, New York.
Prof. Adolph Harnack, University of Berlin.
Dr. S. Rappoport, School of Oriental Languages, Paris.
Prof. Hermann Diels, University of Berlin.
Prof. C. W. C. Oman, Oxford University.
Prof. I. Goldziher, University of Vienna.
Prof. W. L. Fleming, University of West Virginia.
Prof. R. Koser, University of Berlin.
CONTENTS
VOLUME II
PART IV. ISRAEL
PAGE
Introductory Essay. Israel as a World Influence.
By Bernhard Stade
1
A Critical Survey of the Scope and Sources of Israelitic History to the Destruction of Jerusalem
4
Hebrew History in Outline
(1180
B.C.
-70
A.D.
)
30
CHAPTER I
Land and People
45
The land,
46
. The people,
48
.
CHAPTER II
Origin and Early History
(2300-1200
B.C.
)
56
The age of the patriarchs,
57
. Early movements of the Israelites,
57
. The Egyptian sojourn,
58
. Biblical account of Moses and the Exodus,
61
. Israel’s early neighbours,
63
. The conquest of Canaan,
66
.
CHAPTER III
The Judges
(1200-1020
B.C.
)
72
CHAPTER IV
Samuel and Saul
(1020
B.C.
-1002
B.C.
)
77
Samuel and Saul,
78
. The rise of David,
79
. David in revolt against Saul,
80
. The death of Saul and the struggle for the succession,
83
. David secures the crown,
85
.
CHAPTER V
David’s Reign
(1002-970
B.C.
)
86
David’s greatness in time of peace,
89
. Further wars break out,
91
. David and
Absalom,
93
. Renan’s estimate of David,
98
.
CHAPTER VI
Solomon in his Glory
(970-930
B.C.
)
99
The early years of Solomon’s reign,
100
.
CHAPTER VII
Decay and Captivity
(930-586
B.C.
)
106
The schism of the Ten Tribes,
106
. The Moabite stone,
109
. Destruction of the two kingdoms,
113
. The Babylonian Captivity,
118
.
CHAPTER VIII
The Return from Captivity
(586-415
B.C.
)
122
The prophecy of the return,
122
. The condition of the exiles,
125
. The coming of Cyrus,
126
. The return to Jerusalem,
127
. The walls upraised again,
130
.
CHAPTER IX
From Nehemiah to Antiochus
(415-166
B.C.
)
133
Under Persian rule,
133
. Persian influences on Jewish religion,
134
. Alexander the Great,
134
. Under the Seleucids,
135
. The Syrian dominion; Antiochus the Great,
138