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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

T^he Outlook Company

New York

T^he 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

. Antiochus Epiphanes,

139

. Jason and Antiochus torment the people,

140

.

CHAPTER X

The Maccabæan War