Teach D Teacher (John J)

BRIEF HISTORY OF KABUSA LCC SINCE INCEPTION It is evident, however, that the Hebrew people were a commemorative race; in other words, they were given to creating and presenting memorials of important events. Even in the patriarchal times we find monuments set up in order to commemorate eventsof Jacob (Gen 28:18) "set up a pillar" to perpetuate the memory of the divine promise; and that these monuments had a religious importance and sanction appears from the statement that "he poured oil upon the top of the pillar" (Gen 31:45; Josh 4:9; 1 Sam 7:12; Judg 9:6). Long-lived trees, such as Oaks and Terebinths were made use of as remembrance (Gen 35:4; Josh 24:26). Commemorative names, also, were given to persons, places, and things; and from the earliest periods it was usual to substitute a new and descriptive name for an old one, which may in its origin have been descriptive too (Ex 2; 10; Gen 2:1; 23; 4:1). Genealogical tables appear, moreover, to have had a very ear