The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . tian supremacy onwards. * lledemption by a payment in money was the case .imong the Hebrews (Nnmh. xviii. 15, 16),as also the substitution of an animal in the place of a child (Gen. xxii. 1 -13) ; as to redemption bycircumcision, cf. the story of Moses and , where the mother saves her sou from Jahveh bycircumcising him (Exod. iv. 24-26). Circumcision was practised among the Syrians of Palestine inthe time of Herodotus (II. civ.: cf. Wiede-mann, Herodots sweites Bach, pp. 410-413; Ed. Meter,GesoMchle des AUerthums, vol. i. p. 25
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . tian supremacy onwards. * lledemption by a payment in money was the case .imong the Hebrews (Nnmh. xviii. 15, 16),as also the substitution of an animal in the place of a child (Gen. xxii. 1 -13) ; as to redemption bycircumcision, cf. the story of Moses and , where the mother saves her sou from Jahveh bycircumcising him (Exod. iv. 24-26). Circumcision was practised among the Syrians of Palestine inthe time of Herodotus (II. civ.: cf. Wiede-mann, Herodots sweites Bach, pp. 410-413; Ed. Meter,GesoMchle des AUerthums, vol. i. p. 250; and Th. Eeinach, De Quelqucs faits relatifs it Vhistoire de lacin-oncision, in VAnthropologic, 1893, pp. 28-31). 5 As to sacrifices of children among peoples of Syrian origin, cf. the texts collected by Movers,Die Phonizier, vol. i. pp. 299-311. « PiAiTAROH, De Superstitione, § 13 : if we may credit Tertullian (Apohg., 9), the custom of offeringup children as sacrifices lasted down to the proconsulate of Tiberius. STIilAX WORSHIP AND FESTIVALS. IGl. ^ W^^tt^-
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