View of the HebrewsThis famous book by preacher and theologian Ethan Smith puts forth the notion that the Native American tribes are descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. The idea that the distant forebears of the Native American tribes had somehow arrived in North America long ago from Israel, perhaps during the Great Flood described in the Biblical Old Testament, was a popular belief in the USA during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Lacking an alternative explanation for the tribal peoples, the preachers of the era advanced this Israelite theory, which gained currency especially among pious Christians in the fledgling United States. Concepts that Ethan Smith and others advanced were later discredited by anthropologists, who determined that ancestors of the Native American peoples had in fact migrated across the frozen plains of Alaska. Despite being disproven by later research, View of the Hebrews remains interesting for insights into popular beliefs and suppositions of religious scholars at the time. |
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... dead in publick pla ces . The dead became too numerous to be in- terred . Many died while attempting to perform this office . So great and awful became the ca- lamities , that lamentation ceased ; and an awful silence of despair ...
... dead in publick pla ces . The dead became too numerous to be in- terred . Many died while attempting to perform this office . So great and awful became the ca- lamities , that lamentation ceased ; and an awful silence of despair ...
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... dead calm before a fatal catastrophe . Such presumptuous leaning upon the Lord , and saying , " Is not the Lord among us ? no evil shall come upon us ; " was so far from saving , that it was a sure precursor of perdition , and of the ...
... dead calm before a fatal catastrophe . Such presumptuous leaning upon the Lord , and saying , " Is not the Lord among us ? no evil shall come upon us ; " was so far from saving , that it was a sure precursor of perdition , and of the ...
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... dead . 20. Their mourning for their dead . 21. Their raising seed to a deceased brother . 22. Their change of names adapted to their circumstances and times . 23. Their own traditions ; the accounts of English writers ; and the ...
... dead . 20. Their mourning for their dead . 21. Their raising seed to a deceased brother . 22. Their change of names adapted to their circumstances and times . 23. Their own traditions ; the accounts of English writers ; and the ...
Contents
The distinct existence of the Jews | 1 |
They all appear to have had one origin | 85 |
They have their holy ark | 93 |
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