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 CORNHILL, BOSTON. 1807. T THE 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. 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- 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- |