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EGYPTIAN OR HEBREW THRESHING FLOOR 44 AN EGYPTIAN REAPING 48 CANAANITE HOES 48 CANAANITE SICKLE 48 CANAANITE OR HEBREW PLOWSHARES 48 MODERN ARAB WOMAN SPINNING 52 ANCIENT HEBREW DOOR KEY 52 HEBREW NEEDLES OF BONE 52 SMALLER KEY 52 CANAANITE CHISEL (Bronze) 76 CANAANITE FILE 76 VERY ANCIENT CANAANITE FLINT, FOR MAKING STONE KNIVES 76 BRONZE HAMMERHEAD 76 BONE AWL HANDLE 76 A FISH-HOOK 76 CANAANITE WHETSTONES 76 CANAANITE OR HEBREW NAILS 76 REMAINS OF WALLS OF THE CANAANITE CITY, MEGIDDO 134 PART OF CITY WALL AND GATE, SAMARIA 134 CANAANITE PIPE OR FIFE 144 AN EGYPTIAN HARP 144 AN ASSYRIAN UPRIGHT HARP 144 AN ASSYRIAN HORIZONTAL HARP 144 A BABYLONIAN HARP 144 JEWISH HARPS ON COINS OF BAR COCHBA, 132-135 A.D. 144 ASSYRIAN DULCIMER 144 FOREWORD Most histories have been histories of kings and emperors. The daily life of the common people--their joys and sorrows, their hopes, achievements, and ideals--has been buried in oblivion. The historical narratives of the Bible are, indeed, to a great extent an exception to this rule. They tell us much about the everyday life of peasants and slaves. The Bible's chief heroes were not kings nor nobles. Its supreme Hero was a peasant workingman. But we have not always studied the Bible from this point of view. In this course we shall try to reconstruct for ourselves the story of the Hebrew people as an account of Hebrew shepherds, farmers, and such like: what oppressions t
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