Records Of Israel
Book details
- Title
- Records Of Israel
- Author
- Grace Aguilar Preface
- Publication year listed
- 1843
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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Records Of Israel
Author: Grace Aguilar
Year: 1843
Records of Israel by Grace Aguilar Preface: THE following tales have no pretensions whatever to what is termed historical romance . They are simply, what their name implies, " Records " of a people, of whose modern history so little is generally known, that the word Jew is associated only with biblical and ancient recollections, or as connected with characteristics, feelings, and spiritual incitements, wholly distinct from those which relate to man in general . The page of modern history, more especially of the middle ages, teems with the awful sufferings and martyrdoms of the Hebrews : yet the facts are passed over, with scarcely a notice, as the justly ordained punishment for our awful sin of rejection, when eternal salvation and temporal happiness were so mercifully proffered...