Oriental customs: or an illustration of the sacred Scriptures, by an explanatory application of the customs and manners of the Eastern nations, and especially the Jews. Therein alluded to, together with observations on many difficult and obscure texts, collected from the most celebrated travellers, and the most eminent critics / by Samuel Burder.

  • Samuel Burder
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1802
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Credit: Oriental customs: or an illustration of the sacred Scriptures, by an explanatory application of the customs and manners of the Eastern nations, and especially the Jews. Therein alluded to, together with observations on many difficult and obscure texts, collected from the most celebrated travellers, and the most eminent critics / by Samuel Burder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    amusement, but to furnish the persons so instructed with some method of obtaining their living, should they ever be reduced to want and poverty. No. 498.—xix. 9. Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.] Among the Jews there were two kinds of schools, wherein the law was taught, private and public. Their private schools were those, wherein a doctor of the law entertained his scholars, and were usually styled houses of learning. Their public schools Avere those, where their consistories sat to resolve all difficulties and differences of the laAv. The method of teaching adopted in the schools is observablein the scripture. When Jesus Christ Avas tAvelve years of age, he Avas found in the temple, in the midst of the doctors, hearing them, and asking them questions. (Luke ii. 46.) St. Paul says, that he had studied at the feet of Gamaliel. (Acts xxii. 3.) Philo says, that among the essenes, the children sat at the feet of their masters, who interpreted the laAv, and explained the figurative and allegorical sense of it, after the manner of the ancient philosophers. Among the HebreAvs, the rabbins sat on chairs that were raised; those scholars, who Avere the greatest proficients, Avere placed on benches just below their masters, and the younger sort sat on the ground on hassocks. The master taught either by himself or by an interpreter ; if he used an interpreter he spoke HebreAv, and the inter- preter explained it in the vulgar tongue. If the scholars desired to propose any question to the master, they addressed themselves to the interpreter, Avho proposed it to the rabbin, and reported his ansAver. Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible, art. School. No. 499.—xx. 7. And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread. ] Bishop Pearce, in his note on this passage, says, “ In the Jewish