Sinopsis
Discover the ancient threshold covenant and how blood bound families to the divine, shaping worship across cultures.
This book examines a world-wide rite that marks a crossing of life, family, and faith. It explains how blood offerings at the threshold became a sacred pledge between people and the divine, beginning with the family and expanding through community life, temples, and empires. Readers will see how archeology and biblical study illuminate these enduring gestures without losing sight of their reverent origins.
Key ideas guided by careful induction include the rise of the threshold rite from the earliest family bonds, the role of blood as life’s pledge, and the way covenant and worship grow from these foundations. The work also connects ancient practices across different cultures to show a common thread in how humanity seeks blessing, protection, and meaning through sacred acts at thresholds large and small.
- How the threshold rite starts in the marriage and family, acting as a sacred test of covenant and life.
- Why blood is viewed as a life pledge and how it functions as a binding certificate of union.
- Connections between religious rites, archaeology, and the development of worship.
- Cross-cultural reflections that trace similar symbols and practices back to a shared origin.
Ideal for readers of biblical history, religious studies, and archaeology who seek a grounded, inductive view of early covenant rituals.
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This volume grew out of that one. It looks back to a still earlier date. That began as it were with Cain and Abel, while this begins with Adam and Eve. It was while preparing a Supplement for a second edition of that volume that the main idea of this work assumed such importance in my mind that I was led to make a separate study of it, and present it independently. The special theory here advanced is wholly a result of induction. The theory came out of the gathered facts, instead of the facts being gathered in support of the theory.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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This work does not treat of the origin of man's religious faculty, or of the origin of the sentiment of religion; nor does it enter the domain of theological discussion. It simply attempts to show the beginning of religious rites, by which man evidenced a belief, however obtained, in the possibility of covenant relations between God and man; and the gradual development of those rites, with the progress of the race toward a higher degree of civilization and enlightenment Necessarily the volume is not addressed to a popular audience, but to students in the lessons of primitive life and culture.
In a former volume, "The Blood Covenant," I sought to show the origin of sacrifice, and the significance of transferred or proffered blood or life. The facts given in that work have been widely accepted as lying at the basis of fundamental doctrines declared in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, and have also been recognized as the source of perverted views which have had prominence in the principal ethnic religions of the world.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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