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BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY. BY PROFBSSOR GESENIUS, OF HALLE.
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JULY , 1830 .
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( Translated from Ersch and Grober ' s Encyclopaedia , Part X . Leip . 1823 . ) Among the Hebrews , geography was not set apart as a distinct science , and consequently the notices of biblical , as well as of the more ancient Greek geography , are interwoven with the history , and mast be extracted from it and arranged into order . In such notices the Pentateuch and the book of Joshua are particularly rich . After the rnythico-geographic
description of Eden , ( Gen . ii . 10 , &c ., ) the tenth chapter of Genesis presents to us a genealogical table of nations , in which all the nations of the earth , then known to the Hebrews , are brought into three great classes , and traced to the three sons of Noah—Sem , Harn , and Japhet , as by the Grecian genealogists the races of their people were represented as derived from the three sons of Hellen , the son of Deucalion . * This important document , which enables us to judge of the extent of the knowledge of the world then possessed by
the Hebrews , and which is inestimable as supplying materials for the oldest geography of the East , here deserves a more attentive examination . It informs us , that the descendants of Noah ' s three sons so distributed themselves into the countries of the earth , that the progeny of Ham peopled the south ; those of Japhet the obscurely known regions towards the WestancJ Norths and those of Sem , including the Hebrews themselves , the middle of the t ^ ea known earth , i . e . the South-western part of Asia . The names by which it designates the more remote nations are frequently analogous to those by which these nations are denominated among the later Orientals . *} " They
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vol . iv . 2 i .
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XLIII .
Biblical Geography. By Profbssor Gesenius, Of Halle.
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY . BY PROFBSSOR GESENIUS , OF HALLE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1830, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2586/page/1/
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