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This is not the case for Israel, however, whose Prophets, in the name of the Almighty, wage a victorious battle against all images, which are forever excluded from the Hebraic city in the name of YHWH, creator of heaven and earth, whose law forbids the reproduction of forms. The faces of Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Ezekiel Page 3 are forever lost to us because of a transcendental will that aims at erasing the contingenteven the most exceptionalfor the sake of the eternal. As soon as man, or his creation, or even the idea of duration tends to move from the Hebraic obsession of seeing everything in relation to God, a mental process works to put them back in their places in the divine transcendental order.

25:1-22). Jeremiah's repurchase of the field of Anathoth proves that these laws were applied in the daily life of the Hebrews and that they explain their life style very well (Jer. 32:6-11). The seventh year's release (Deut. 15:11 3) and the restitution of the jubilee, tithing, the prohibition of loans at interestare all limits on the principle of private property. These measures, which hinder free enterprise and the principles upon which today's "consumer society" are based, characterize Hebraic antiquity, which defines itself as a sacrificial society.

Here are some chairs, some tables, some instruments, some art objects of the times. Bit by bit secrets are revealed. While I am writing these lines, the Israeli radio announces the discovery of a treasure of silver and jewels in Eshtemoh, near Hebronthe most important one to date for the royal era whose portrait appears with ever-increasing precision. Thus the historian is faced with a considerable volume of all sorts of documents that, in their richness and variety, impose the strictest critical caution.

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