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he Beth-horon Route--The Amorites defeated but not surrounded--King David as a Strategist. THE MIRACLE--The Noon-day Heat, the great Hindrance to the Israelites--Joshua desired the Heat to be tempered--The Sun made to "be silent"--The Hailstorm--The March to Makkedah--A Full Day's March in the Afternoon--"The Miracle" not a Poetic Hyperbole--Exact Accord of the Poem and the Prose Chronicle--The Record made at the Time--Their March, the Israelites' Measure of Time 351
CHAPTER II.
THE DIAL OF AHAZ
The Narrative--Suggested Explanations--The "Dial of Ahaz," probably a Staircase--Probable History and Position of the Staircase--Significance of the Sign 385
CHAPTER III.
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
The Narrative--No Astronomical Details given--Purpose of the Scripture Narrative--Kepler's suggested Identification of the Star--The New Star of 1572--Legend of
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Astrology
5, 77, 78, 130-145, 248
Astruc, Jean
171, 172
Atmospheric circulation
41-45
Aurora Borealis
117
βAyish, see βAsh
Baal, or Bel
67, 89, 131, 176, 178, 210, 253
Bear, the (see Arcturus)
152
Benetnaβsh
260
Bethlehem, Star of
393-400
Bosanquet, J. W.
388
Bosanquet, R. H. M.
315
"Boundary-stones"
153, 154, 198, 318, 320
Bow-star, the
240
Bradley, third Astronomer Royal
96
Bul, month
85, 299
Burton, Lady
379
"Canterbury Tales"
277
Cardinal points
50, 51
Carrington, R.
220
Causality, Law of
15, 16, 18, 78
"Chaldean Account of Genesis"
27
Cherubim
166, 169, 188, 190
Cheyne, Dr.
238, 240, 254, 255, 256
Chisleu, month
85, 238, 300, 304, 310
Chiun
133, 134, 144
Clouds
42, 43, 44, 46, 54
the balancings of the
46
the spreadings of
49
Colures, the
159
Comets
103-108
Donati's
105, 107
Halley's
103, 104
Conder, Col. C. R.
238
Constellations, list of
151-152
origin of
149-161
Copernicus
76
Cowell, P. H.
303
Creation
12-24
story of, Babylonian
26, 170, 178, 240, 242, 246, 252
Hebrew
25
Scandinavian
29
Cycles, Astronomical, of Daniel
337-348
Cylinder seal
71, 217
Damascius
26, 27
Daniel, Cycles of
337-348
Dawson, Dr. W. Bell
343
Day and its divisions
269-282
Days, different kinds of
271, 272
"Dayspring"
71, 281
Decans
142, 244, 245, 248
De Cheseaux
343
Deep (tehΕm)
25-34, 53, 201, 210, 211, 234
fountains of
52-54
Delitzsch, Prof. Fr.
31, 157, 170, 171, 285
Deluge
49, 53, 83, 161, 165, 168, 170-185, 254
Denning, W. F.
220
Dial of Ahaz
385-392
Diana of the Ephesians
112
Dieulafoy, Marcel
372
Disraeli
278
Drach
221
Draconic period
122
Dragon's Head and Tail
198, 199
Driver, Dr.
172, 209
Earth (eretz)
39
corners of
51
foundations of
39, 58
pillars of
39, 40
East (kedem, front)
51
(mizrach, rising)
51
Eclipses
118-129
Edda, prose
29
Ellicott, Andrew
114
Epicureans
71
Epping, Dr.
274
Equuleus
152
Eratosthenes
218
Ethanim, month
85, 299
Eudoxus
5, 6, 37, 152, 345
Euripides
218
Eusebius
88
Evenings, between the two
277-279
"Eyelids of the Morning"
117, 209, 210
"False Dawn"
117
Firmament (raqiaβ)
35-38
(stereoma)
37
Flamsteed, first Astronomer Royal
96
Flood, see Deluge
Gad
132, 217
Galileo
3, 4, 76
Gamaliel, Rabbon
297
Genesis and the Constellations
162-169
Gesenius
134
Gilgamesh, Epic of
167, 170, 177, 180
Gosse, P. H.
209
Groves, see Asherah
Guinness, Dr. H. Grattan
343
Heaven (shamayim)
35, 36, 38
"bisection of"
55, 362
foundations of
39
host of
56, 57, 65
pillars of
39
stories of
40
windows of
49, 50, 53
Heliacal rising
59, 222, 224, 261
Herschel, Sir W.
75, 76
Hershon, P. I.
311
Hesiod
136, 152, 154, 216, 218, 237, 284
Hesperus
137, 232, 258
Hipparchus
5, 96, 250, 345
HΓΆffler, Dr.
266
Hommel, Dr.
240
Homer
136, 153, 154
Horace
287, 288
Hour (shaβah)
281
double- (kasbu)
282, 320, 345, 381
Humboldt
114
Hyades
133, 217
Ibrahim ben Ahmed
114
Iliad
80
Istar
90, 131, 253, 323, 324
Jehuda, Rabbi
261
Jensen
240
Josephus
68, 187, 222, 279, 288, 289
Joshua's Long Day
351-384
Jubilee, the
326-336
Jupiter
104, 131, 132, 137, 247, 396
(Nibir)
243, 247
Juvenal
288
Karaite Jews
278
Kepler
4, 96, 396
KΔsΔ«l
214-216, 231-232, 237-243, 251, 261, 262
Ketu
201
Kimah
214-216, 223, 231-232, 237, 241, 243, 251, 261, 262
King, Dr. L. W.
240, 241, 303
Kouyunjik mound
27, 33
Lance-star
240
Leonid meteors
114, 116
Leviathan
196-212
Longfellow
233, 236
Lucifer
132
MΓ€dler
220
Maestlin
219
Mazzaroth (or Mazzaloth)
130, 214, 243-257, 270, 280
Meni
132, 217
Mercury
131, 137
Merodach
28, 29, 33, 131, 167, 178, 210, 234-242, 247, 252
Meteors
111-117
Metonic Cycle
306, 335, 336, 339, 344
Milton
107
Mishna, the
297, 311
Mithraic cult
160
Month
293-304
anomalistic
342
Months, Hebrew names for
304
Moon
79-92
blindness
92
-god (Sin)
87, 253, 323, 324
harvest
81
new
123
phases of
80, 91
MΓΌller, Otfried
262
Newton
4
Nisan, month
300, 304, 310, 311, 315, 320
Node
121, 122
North (mezarim)
262, 263
(tsaphon)
51
Onias
68
Orion
231-242
Ovid
288
Palestine Exploration Fund, map
360, 362
Panyasis
152
Parallax
73, 98, 265
Persius
288
Peschitta
259, 261
Philo
289
Phosphorus
132, 137
Pinches, T. G.
27, 28, 30, 31, 90, 176, 235
Pleiades
133, 152, 213-230
Precession
158
Pritchard, Prof. C.
397
Proctor, R. A.
107, 108, 135, 141
Procyon
152, 240
Ptolemy, Claudius
5, 76, 96, 149-154
Ptolemy Philometer
68
Pythagoras
137, 345
Rahab (the proud one)
204-206, 211
Rahu
201
Rain
42-45, 49
"Records of the Past"
26, 28
Remphan
133, 134
Ring with wings
88, 126, 129
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