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The outstanding nineteenth-century biblical scholar and Semitist William Robertson Smith gave three courses of Burnett Lectures on the Religion of the Semites at Aberdeen just over a century ago. The first series, published in 1889 (2nd edition, 1894), has long been a classic work. The second and third series were never published, owing to the author’s ill health; however, the manuscript of them...
about engaged in various business or he might be absent at another sanctuary if he had more altars than one. Thus the priests of Baal on Mt Carmel find it necessary to summon the god by loud invocations and other more potent means (1 Kgs 18:26–29). And at some sanctuaries there were seasons when the deity was supposed to be away from home. At the great Astarte temple of Eryx the sacred doves used to leave the temple every year and were supposed to accompany the goddess to Libya. After nine days they
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