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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...

The Greek had access to all Hellenic gods, and in practice worshipped all as fit occasion arose. If he acknowledged one god as his special patron, he did this in no exclusive sense. All the gods of Greece were his gods. Among the Semites this unity of religion was never attained. There was no pan-Semitic feeling like the pan-Hellenic feeling that united the Greeks of different states in a common religious life, in spite of their political feuds. When
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