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THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD

[Illustration: CHEYNE]




                            THE HISTORIANS’
                                HISTORY
                             OF THE WORLD

   A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations
  as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:
   edited, with the assistance of a distinguished board of advisers
                         and contributors, by

                      HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, LL.D.

                            [Illustration]

                        IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES

             VOLUME II--ISRAEL, INDIA, PERSIA, PHOENICIA,
                     MINOR NATIONS OF WESTERN ASIA

                          The Outlook Company
                               New York

                        The History Association
                                London

                                 1905

                           COPYRIGHT, 1904,
                       BY HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS.

                        _All rights reserved._

                            THE TROW PRESS
                          201-213 E. 12TH ST.
                               NEW YORK
                               U. S. A.




Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.


  Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin.
  Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France.
  Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University.
  Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Michigan.
  Prof. David H. Müller, University of Vienna.
  Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris.
  Capt. F. Brinkley, Tokio.

  Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin.
  Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University.
  Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg.
  Prof. Albert B. Hart, Harvard University.
  Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society.
  Dr. James Gairdner, C.B., London.

  Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz Möllendorff, University of Berlin.
  Prof. H. Marczali, University of Budapest.
  Dr. G. W. Botsford, Columbia University.
  Prof. Julius Wellhausen, University of Göttingen.
  Prof. Franz R. von Krones, University of Graz.
  Prof. Wilhelm Soltau, Zabern University.

  Prof. R. W. Rogers, Drew Theological Seminary.
  Prof. A. Vambéry, University of Budapest.
  Prof. Otto Hirschfeld, University of Berlin.
  Dr. Frederick Robertson Jones, Bryn Mawr College.
  Baron Bernardo di San Severino Quaranta, London.
  Dr. John P. Peters, New York.

  Prof. Adolph Harnack, University of Berlin.
  Dr. S. Rappoport, School of Oriental Languages, Paris.
  Prof. Hermann Diels, University of Berlin.
  Prof. C. W. C. Oman, Oxford University.
  Prof. I. Goldziher, University of Vienna.
  Prof. W. L. Fleming, University of West Virginia.
  Prof. R. Koser, University of Berlin.




CONTENTS


                               VOLUME II

                            PART IV. ISRAEL

                                                                       PAGE

  INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. ISRAEL AS A WORLD INFLUENCE. By Bernhard Stade      1

  A CRITICAL SURVEY OF THE SCOPE AND SOURCES OF ISRAELITIC HISTORY
  TO THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM                                         4

  HEBREW HISTORY IN OUTLINE (1180 B.C.-70 A.D.)                          30

                               CHAPTER I

  LAND AND PEOPLE                                                        45

    The land, 46. The people, 48.

                              CHAPTER II

  ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY (2300-1200 B.C.)                              56

    The age of the patriarchs, 57. Early movements of the
    Israelites, 57. The Egyptian sojourn, 58. Biblical account of
    Moses and the Exodus, 61. Israel’s early neighbours, 63. The
    conquest of Canaan, 66.

                              CHAPTER III

  THE JUDGES (1200-1020 B.C.)                                            72

                              CHAPTER IV

  SAMUEL AND SAUL (1020 B.C.-1002 B.C.)                                  77

    Samuel and Saul, 78. The rise of David, 79. David in revolt
    against Saul, 80. The death of Saul and the struggle for the
    succession, 83. David secures the crown, 85.

                              CHAPTER V

  DAVID’S REIGN (1002-970 B.C.)                                          86

    David’s greatness in time of peace, 89. Further wars break out,
    91. David and Absalom, 93. Renan’s estimate of David, 98.

                              CHAPTER VI

  SOLOMON IN HIS GLORY (970-930 B.C.)                                    99

    The early years of Solomon’s reign, 100.

                              CHAPTER VII

  DECAY AND CAPTIVITY (930-586 B.C.)                                    106

    The schism of the Ten Tribes, 106. The Moabite stone, 109.
    Destruction of the two kingdoms, 113. The Babylonian Captivity,
    118.

                             CHAPTER VIII

  THE RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY (586-415 B.C.)                              122

    The prophecy of the return, 122. The condition of the exiles,
    125. The coming of Cyrus, 126. The return to Jerusalem, 127.
    The walls upraised again, 130.

                              CHAPTER IX

  FROM NEHEMIAH TO ANTIOCHUS (415-166 B.C.)                             133

    Under Persian rule, 133. Persian influences on Jewish religion,
   