PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE first edition of this work was soon exhausted, and a second was called for. But further investigations of mine in the same general field had revealed a new line of facts, which I desired to present in a supplement to a second edition. I wished, also, to give fuller proofs in the direction of specific exceptions taken by eminent critics to certain positions in the original work. Therefore I delayed the issue of a new edition. Circumstances quite beyond my control have hindered me in the execution of my purpose until the present time. I now send out a new edition, with a Supplement containing important facts in the line of the original investigation. But much of the matter that I have discovered in other lines is reserved for a new work in the field of primitive covenants, including the Name Covenant, the Covenant of Salt, and the Threshold Covenant. This new work I hope to have ready at an early day. The reception accorded to The Blood Covenant by scientists and theologians on both sides of the ocean was gratifying beyond my highest anticipations. From various directions I am hearing of the restatement of religious dogmas by prominent and influential Christian teachers, in the light newly thrown on the terminology of Scripture by the disclosures of this volume, and it is with pleasure that I respond to calls from all sides for a fresh edition of it. In my careful revision of the work I am indebted for valuable aid to Professor Dr. Hermann V. Hilprecht, the eminent Assyriologist. PHILADELPHIA, January 30, 1893. H. CLAY TRUmbull. (1.) SOURCES OF BIBLE STUDY, 3. (2.) AN ANCIENT SEMITIC RITE. 4. (3.) THE PRimitive Rite in AFRICA, 12. (4.) TRACES OF THE RITE IN EUROPE, 39. (5.) WORLD-WIDE SWEEP OF THE RITE, 43. (6.) LIGHT FROM THE CLASSICS, 58. (7.) THE BOND OF THE COVE- NANT, 65. (8.) THE RITE AND ITS TOKEN IN EGYPT, 77. (9.) OTHER (1.) SACREDNESs of Blood and of the Heart, 99. (2.) VIVIFY- ing Power of BLOOD, 110. (3.) A NEW NATURE through NEW BLOOD, 126. (4.) LIFE FROM ANY BLOOD, AND BY A TOUCH, 134. (5.) INSPIRATION THROUGH BLOOD, 139. (6.) INTER-COMMUNION THROUGH BLOOD, 147. (7.) SYMBOLIC SUBSTITUTES FOR BLOOD, 191. ix INDICATIONS OF THE RITE IN THE BIBLE. (1.) LIMITATIONS OF INQUIRY, 209. (2.) PRIMITIVE TEACHINGS OF BLOOD, 210. (3.) THE BLOOD COVENANT IN CIRCUMCISION, 215. (4.) THE BLOOD COVENANT TESTED, 224. (5.) THE BLOOD COVE- NANT AND ITS TOKENS IN THE PASSOVER, 230. (6.) THE BLOOD COVENANT AT SINAI, 238. (7.) THE BLOOD COVENANT IN THE MOSAIC RITUAL, 240. (8.) THE PRIMITIVE RITE ILLUSTRATED, 263. (9.) THE BLOOD COVENANT IN THE GOSPELS, 271. (10.) THE BLOOD IMPORTANCE OF THIS RITE STRANGELY UNDERVALUED, 297. LIFE IN THE BLOOD, IN THE HEART, in the Liver, 299. TRANSMIGRA- TION OF SOULS, 305. THE BLOOD-RITE IN BURMAH, 313. STAINED TREE OF THE COVENANT, 318. BLOOD-DRINKING, 320. COVENANT-CUTTING, 322. BLOOD-Bathing, 324. BLOOD-Ransom- SUPPLEMENT TO SECOND EDITION. - RECEPTION AND CRITICISMS OF FIRST EDITION, 345. VITAL UNION BY SUBSTITUTE BLOOD, 346. BLOOD MAKES UNITY; EATING SHOWS UNION, 350. ETHNIC REACHINGS AFTER UNION WITH THE |