LECTURES

ON

Jewish Antiquities ;

DELIVERED AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY IN CAMBRIDGE,

A. D. 1802 & 1803.

BY DAVID TAPPAN, D. D.

LATE HOLLIS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THAT SEMINARY.

PUBLISHED

BY W. HILLIARD AND E. LINCOLN, AND FOR SALE
BOOKSTORE IN CAMBRIDGE AND AT NO. 5€

CORNHILL, BOSTON.

1807.

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ORIGIN

LECTURE I.

RIGIN and progress of civil government. Political

government at first parental or patriarchal. Illustrations

and proofs from sacred history before and after the flood.

Crime of Ham, for which he was cursed.

Why this

curse was denounced, not on Ham himself, but on his

son Canaan. In what respects this curse was fulfilled.

LECTURE II.

Patriarchal government farther illustrated. Sentence of Jacob

on his twelve sons. Special government of the Jews. Its

leading design, the preservation of the true religion among

them, in connexion with their temporal freedom and pros-

perity. Why temporal blessings and evils were employ-

ed to enforce this constitution. Objections answered.

LECTURE III.

Objection of partiality in Jehovah toward the Jewish nation,

answered. Objection to the Hebrew constitution as a

system of intolerence and war, of conquest or extermina-

tion, answered. System of Hebrew policy contrasted

with that of the antient heathens.

LECTURE IV.

Hebrew constitution adapted to secure the freedom and hap-

piness of its subjects. Hebrew government originally a

free and equal republic. Fundamental laws required,

that the territory should be equally divided; that estates

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