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peoples had also their own prophets and religious guides like
Job, Jethro (the father-in-law of the Prophet Moses), Bala-
am, Hud, and many others. But they, like the Jews, had
taken to idolatry until it was totally eradicated by the Prince
of the prophets. The Jews, in about the fifth century B.C.,
produced the greater portion of their canonical books of the
Old Testament, when the memories of the conquest of the
58
land of Canaan by Joshua, the temple and Jerusalem of
Solomon, were events buried in the past epochs of their
wondrous history. A nationalistic and Judaistic spirit of
solicitude and seclusion reigned among the small remnant
of Israel; the belief in the coming of a great Savior to restore
the lost throne and crown of David was regnant, and the old
Job, Jethro (the father-in-law of the Prophet Moses), Bala-
am, Hud, and many others. But they, like the Jews, had
taken to idolatry until it was totally eradicated by the Prince
of the prophets. The Jews, in about the fifth century B.C.,
produced the greater portion of their canonical books of the
Old Testament, when the memories of the conquest of the
58
land of Canaan by Joshua, the temple and Jerusalem of
Solomon, were events buried in the past epochs of their
wondrous history. A nationalistic and Judaistic spirit of
solicitude and seclusion reigned among the small remnant
of Israel; the belief in the coming of a great Savior to restore
the lost throne and crown of David was regnant, and the old