Posted on 01/22/2009 10:23:36 PM PST by restornu
It is a document to which almost every passage in the Bible, wherein materials of commerce are mentioned, is directly related. It was, no doubt, this device of expressing defiance of unrighteous political power by a Code of Substituted Names which led also to the elaborate numerical code that is apparent
in the later Jewish and early Christian writings; whereof a typical instance is the "number of the beast" which signifies the Emperor Nero in the Apocalypse.
Ship and cargo, king and boundaries were discussed by me before the American Oriental Society at its meeting of 1919, and are set forth, with some amplification and the necessary evidence, in the present volume.
My gratitude for helpful suggestions is expressed to Dr. James Alan Montgomery, Professor in the University of Pennsylvania, and to Dr. George William Gilmore, Editor of the Homiletic Review, New York.
WILFRED H. SCHOFF.
The Commercial Museum
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The Ship Tyre: A Symbol of the Fate of Conquerors (1920) by Wilfred Harvey Schoff
About this title: As Prophesied By Isaiah, Ezekiel, And John And Fulfilled At Nineveh, Babylon And Rome. A Study In The Commerce Of The Bible.
MT, Masoretic Text LXX, Septuagint Vulg., Vulgate DV, Douay Version AV, Authorized Version RV, Revised Version
JR, Jewish Revision (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917).
Bertholet, Das Buch Hesekiel (Kurzer Hand-Comment
tar z. A. T.) Leipzig 1897 Kraetzschmar, Das Buch Ezechiel (Hand-kommentar
z. A. T.) Gottingen 1900 Chemihant, Les Propheties d'Ezechiel centre Tyr,
Paris 1912
JRAS, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society JAOS, Journal of the American Oriental Society
I thought it might be of interest to those who love History and many familar items are talked about in this book
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