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
Date:
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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    those who were to contend in them. But the apostle intimates, that there was this peculiar circumstance attending the Christian contest, that the person who proclaimed its laws and rewards to others was also to engage himself, and that there, would be a peculiar infamy and misery in miscarrying. ASoxif^og, which we render cast away, signifies one who is disapproved by the judge of the games, as not having lairly deserved the prize. No. 52.3.—xi. 14, 15. Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a. shame unto him ; but if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her ; for her hair is given her for a covering. ] d he eastern ladies are remarkable for the length, and the great number of the tresses of their hair. The men there, on the contrary, wear very little hair on their heads. Lady M. IV. Montague thus speaks concerning the hair of the women. “ Their hair hangs at full length behind, divided into tresses, braided with pearl or ribbon, which is always in great quantity. I never saw in my life so many fine heads of hair. In one lady’s I have counted one hundred and ten of the tresses, all natural; but it must be owned that every kind of beauty is more com- mon here than with us.” (Lett. vol. ii. p. 31.) The men there, on the contrary, shave all the hair off their heads, excepting one lock ; and those that wear their hair are thought effeminate. Both these parti- culars are mentioned by Chardin, who says, they are agreeable to the custom of the East: the men are shaved, the women nourish their hair with great fondness, which they lengthen, by tresses and tufts of silk, down to the heels. The young men who wear their hair in the East, are looked upon as effeminate and infamous. Harmer, vol. ii. p. 398.