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A NEW edition of Prof. Robertson Smith's lectures was badly needed, for although they were first published in 1889, and the second edition edited by Sutherland Black appeared in 1894, they still hold first place as a classic study of the subject. But a vast amount of material dealing with the Semitic and other religions of the world has accumulated during the last thirty years, and cognisance of this must now be taken. In the new edition, Dr. Stanley Cook has provided a carefully considered introduction, in which he examines Robertson Smith's main conceptions in the light of later developments in the comparative study of religion, and in some two hundred pages of notes has added facts and bibliographical references to further information, which will serve to illustrate and define the position of the beliefs of the Semites in their relation to other systems, especially in the ancient world.
Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: the Fundamental Institutions.
Prof.
William Robertson
Smith
By the late. Third edition, with an Introduction and Additional Notes by Dr. Stanley A. Cook. Pp. lxiv + 718. (London: A. and C. Black, Ltd., 1927.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: the Fundamental Institutions . Nature 121, 704 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121704c0
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