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The Hebrew Word for Atone. I

1911; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 22; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/001452461102200708

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S. Langdon,

Biblical Studies and Interpretation

is a most useful student of Muhammadanlsm.ZVhat he gains he gives.In volume after volume he offers us the results of his study, and always in an easy and accessible fashion.His latest book is A DiäÙJIla1J' of Orietatal Quota- tinus (Sonnenschein; 7s.6d.).The quotations are from the Arabic and the Persian.They are given first in transliteration, and then in some reliable translation.Here are two of them : ' Boast not of having no pride because it is more invisible Than the mark of an ant's foot on a black rock in a dark night.Think it not easy to extirpate from thy heart, For it is more easy to root up a mountain from the earth with a needle.' ' If you have not gone.to the Kaaba, fortune will draw you thither, Do not flee, 0 babbler, for you have no refuge from God.' ____ 1-Ir.Elliot Stock has published a second edition of The Aftor Life, a large learned book ( 3s. net), in which Mr. Henry Buckle of the Burma C0111- mission gives the history of the argument for probation after death, and pleads for its validity.Mr. Harold M