Conception, attitude of the Syrian mind toward, 20-25; attitude of the American mind toward, 23, 24.
Corruption, fermentation considered to be, 151, 152.
Couches, reclining on, 227-30; sleeping on, 271, 272.
Critics, of the Bible, 41, 119, 128; of Paul and Christianity, 328; higher, 408.
Culture gives strength and symmetry to religious thought, 85.
Da Vinci, Leonardo, his painting of The Last Supper, 58, 59, 67.
Dialects of the Oriental's speech, 175-78.
_Drink_, the word as used in the Bible, 193 n.
Drinking, at feasts, 61-63, 236, 237; manner of, 380, 381.
Elisha, the story of, 382, 383; his kindness to a poor widow, 383, 384.
Evolution, not altogether compulsory, 242.
Exaggeration, Oriental fondness for, 118.
"Eye-of-the-needle" passage, the, 130-32.
Faith, of the Oriental, 21; Syrian idealization of, 129; early Palestinian, 406.
Farmer, the American, 285; the Syrian, 286-94.
Feasts, fraternal, in Syria, 56-69, 221; family, 231-38.
Fecundity, a gift of the Lord, 20; leaven a symbol of, 150.
Feet, washing and anointing, 226-28; unclean in a ceremonial sense, 228, 292.
Fermentation, considered to be corruption, 151, 152.
Fig tree, and the vine, the Oriental's chief joys, 280; sitting under, 281, 282.
Flocks of sheep and goats, and their folds, 295, 296; returning, 300; the shepherd's guidance of, 301, 302; the gathering of the, 303.
Garment, cure effected by touch of, 393-95.
_Ghebb_ (sucking of the water with the lips), 381.
Gideon, the story of, 376, 377; his army, 380, 381.
Girdle, the Syrian, 252, 253; placing the hand under, 369.
God, called shelter and refuge, 241, 244, 245; the Oriental's belief that all good comes from, 386, 387.
Grain, measuring, 265-67; threshing, 377-80.
Greeks, their custom of reclining at meals, 225.
Guest, at the feast, 62; sudden arrival of, 213-16; delaying the departing, 218-21; departure of, 221; invited in families, 221, 222; sit on the floor, 222; and _zad_, 250.
Hair, cutting the, release from vow, 17, 18.
_Hate_, the word, in the Arabic tongue, 99; in the Bible, 99, 100.
Home, no word for, among the Syrians, 241, 243; the word in the translation of the Bible, 243.
Hospitality, of Orientals, 205; extended by the man, not the woman, 205-07, 334, 335; Syrian fashion of extending, 208-13; compulsion to accept, 210, 214; Syrian rules of, 213-21; to the traveler, 249, 250.