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[HOOKE, S.H.] The Origins of Early Semitic Ritual (The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 1935)
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[HOOKE, S.H.] The Origins of Early Semitic Ritual (The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 1935)
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London: Published for the British Academy, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without dust jacket). Tall octavo. x + 74pp. Black cloth, spine titled in gilt. A very good or better copy.
Includes the text from three lectures attempting to relate the ritual practices of the Hebrews, as contained in the Old testament, to the larger field of the elaborate rituals of Mesopotamian civilization, and to what we know of the early rituals of Canaan.