Rest days: a study in early law and morality
by Hutton Webster
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About this eBook
- Author
- Webster, Hutton, 1875-1955
- Title
- Rest days : A study in early law and morality
- Original Publication
- New York: Macmillan and Co., 1916.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GT: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Manners and customs
- Subject
- Sabbath
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 79292
- Release Date
- August 6, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Untitled
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.ERRATA
- 5.CONTENTS
- 6.REST DAYS — INTRODUCTION
- 7.CHAPTER I TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS
- 8.CHAPTER II TABOOED DAYS AFTER A DEATH AND ON RELATED OCCASIONS
- 9.CHAPTER III HOLY DAYS
- 10.CHAPTER IV MARKET DAYS
- 11.CHAPTER V LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
- 12.CHAPTER VI LUNAR CALENDARS AND THE WEEK
- 13.CHAPTER VII THE BABYLONIAN “EVIL DAYS” AND THE SHABATTUM
- 14.CHAPTER VIII THE HEBREW SABBATH
- 15.CHAPTER IX UNLUCKY DAYS
- 16.CONCLUSION
- 17.FOOTNOTES
- 18.INDEX
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