Israelitish
Americanadjective
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Christine Rice and Rosemary Joshua sounded exquisite as the Israelitish Man and Woman respectively, while Alastair Miles, replacing the indisposed Christopher Purves, was nobly eloquent as Simon.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012
But whether or not Ramses iii. and the tribes of Israel ever came into actual conflict, it must have been during his reign that the first Israelitish conquests in Canaan were made.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
The Egyptian work is consequently usually known as The Travels of a Mohar, and it gives us an interesting picture of Canaan shortly before the Israelitish Exodus.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
In the first place the Psalter is written only for a single nation; it is full of local allusions, and of references of Israelitish history, which are only reasonable in the mouth of a Jew.
From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood
The Mosaic Law must have drawn its first inspiration from the Abrahamic age, modified and developed though it may have been in the later centuries of Israelitish history.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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