id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.32044024230518 Fiske, Amos Kidder The great epic of Israel : the web of myth, legend, history, law, oracle, wisdom and poetry of the ancient Hebrews by Amos Kidder Fiske ... 1911 .txt text/plain 85782 3242 65 prophet appears to have first become potent in setting up and guiding the earliest King, Saul; but law," which was still attributed to the direct commands of Israel's God through Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. whereby certain cities were saved from destruction, and, according to later revisers of the material, the subjection of Canaanites to menial service was justified; the league of the five kings of the But traditions of the time when there was no King in Israel and heroes arose to lead the people to battle when beset by enemies, came nearer to the the king's son, the peril of the youth of Bethlehem, his fleeing to Samuel at Ramah and being harboured by the priests of Nob, there is a perplexing mixture of material and occasional inconsistencies of detail, but this does not prevent its having a sustained interest, while the stories of David's of prophets, "the Lord " let the King of Israel ./cache/hvd.32044024230518.pdf ./txt/hvd.32044024230518.txt