MOAB , the name of an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

25, xxi. 4; See also:

• JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

27-30). The See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

8). An Edomite list of See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

Although Moab and Ammon were " brothers," their history was usually associated with that of See also:

• JUDAH

It contains a See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

1) and apparently led to the unsuccessful See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

20), while Ammon was ' See edition by M. Lidzbarski, Altsemitische Texte, Bd. I. (See also:

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See also:

• DRIVER, SAMUEL ROLLES (1846– )

If it made inroads upon Judah (2 Kings See also:

• XXIV

41). (See JEws; See also:

• NABATAEANS

12, &c.), and human See also:

• SACRIFICE (from Lat. sacrificium; sacer, holy, and facere, to make)

37); L. B. See also:

• PATON, JOHN BROWN (1830- )
• PATON, SIR JOSEPH NOEL (1821-1901)

For a See also:

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I, 12) was imposed upon an earlier catholicity, or represented only one aspect of religious spirit, or was succeeded by a more tolerant attitude. Evidence for the last-mentioned has been found in the difficult narrative in Josh. xxii. But Israel remained a great power in religious history while Moab disappeared. It is true that Moab was continuously hard pressed by desert hordes; the exposed See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

(G. A. Smith and See also:

• WELLHAUSEN, JULIUS (1844— )

Mosaik von M. (1905), and P. See also:

• PALMER
• PALMER, EDWARD HENRY (1840-1882)
• PALMER, ERASTUS DOW (1817-1904)
• PALMER, GEORGE (1818-1897)
• PALMER, JOHN
• PALMER, RAY (1808-1887)
• PALMER, SAMUEL (1805-1881)
• PALMER, SIR CHARLES MARK, BART

We read there: " The Arabs had such an See also:

• INTEREST

We hear, indeed, of a Meccan See also:

• HANGING

Moreover, it is quite inconceivable that there should have been either a gild or a private individual of such acknowledged See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

Hence it became so popular that, even in See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

`Amr praises the Taghlib in glowing terms: IIarith, in a similar vein, extolls the Bakr—ancestors of Ilammad's patrons. The collection of Ilammad appears to have consisted of the same seven poems which are found in our See also:

• MODERN

144). In place of which poem he read this we do not know; and we are equally ignorant as to whether he counted other pieces than those indicated above among the seven. Now Nabigha and A`sha enjoyed greater celebrity than any of the poets represented in the Mo'allaqat, with the exception of Amra'al-Qais, and it is therefore not surprising that scholars, of a somewhat later date, appended a poem by each of these to the Mo'allaqat, without intending by this to make them an integral part of that work. This is clear, for instance, from the See also:

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He was a See also:

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But the date of the two poets can be approximately determined from other data. Ka'b, son of Zuhair, composed first a See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

62). This poet, not less famous than Nabigha, lived to compose a poem in honour of Mahomet, and died not long before A.D. 630.