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Observations On Divers Passages Of Scripture. Placing Many Of Them In A Light Altogether New. And More Amply Illustrating The Rest Than Has Been Yet Done, By Means Of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned In Books Of Voyages And Travels Into The East: In Two Volumes by Thomas Harmer. This Part 1 of 4 presents a scholarly, philological and ethnographic compilation that interprets Eastern customs of honoring people of rank, drawing on biblical episodes and travel-writer accounts. It weaves Levantine and Near Eastern courtly practices with observations from Maundrell, Pococke, Maillet, Chardin, Ruffell, Norden, Thevenot, Egmont and Heyman, among others, to illuminate gifts, hospitality, salutes, dress, perfumes, and ceremonial space as expressions of power, loyalty, and piety. The aim is to clarify how such customs inform scriptural interpretation and to distinguish civil ceremony from idolatrous acts when reading Scripture in isolation. The volume situates social rank, ritual gesture, and material display within East–West comparative contexts and biblical exegesis, offering a framework for understanding historic Eastern etiquette as it relates to Scripture.
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