Excerpt from The Prayer Book: Three Lectures Delivered to the Jewish Study Society During the Winter of 1904-1905 At what precise date these places of assembly came into existence we do not know. In Psalm lxxiv. (v. 8) we have the pious singer's bitter lament: They have set Thy Sanctuary on fire; they have burnt up all the Synagogues of God in the land - an utterance which indicates that there were already Synagogues in the Psalmist's time, and that they were-to be found in various parts of Palestine. Unfortunately, the ...
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Excerpt from The Prayer Book: Three Lectures Delivered to the Jewish Study Society During the Winter of 1904-1905 At what precise date these places of assembly came into existence we do not know. In Psalm lxxiv. (v. 8) we have the pious singer's bitter lament: They have set Thy Sanctuary on fire; they have burnt up all the Synagogues of God in the land - an utterance which indicates that there were already Synagogues in the Psalmist's time, and that they were-to be found in various parts of Palestine. Unfortunately, the age of this Psalm, like the age of the Psalter generally, is a subject of controversy. If, as some modern scholars maintain, the Psalm dates from the Maccabean period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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