Oriental Customs.

VOL. I.

OR, AN

ILLUSTRATION

OF THE

SACRED SCRIPTURES,

BY AN

EXPLANATORY APPLICATION

OF THE

CUSTOMS AND MANNERS OF THE EASTERN NATIONS,

AND ESPECIALLY

THE JEWS, THEREIN ALLUDED TO.

COLLECTED FROM THE MOST

CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS AND THE MOST EMINENT CRITICS.

BY THE REV. SAMUEL BURDER, A.M.

LATE OF CLARE-HALL, CAMBRIDGE; LECTURER OF THE UNITED PARISHES OF
CHRIST-CHURCH, NEWGATE-STREET, AND ST. LEONARD, FOSTER-LANE, LONDON ;
AND CHAPLAIN TO HIS LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF KENT.

An obsolete custom, or some forgotten circumstance opportunely adverted
to, will sometimes restore its true perspicuity and credit to a very intricate
BISHOP LOWTH.
passage.

THE SIXTH EDITION,

CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1822.

ΤΟ

THE HONOURABLE

AND RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,

SHUTE BARRINGTON, LL. D.

LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM.

A

MY LORD,

CTUATED by a sincere desire to promote that rational and important method of interpreting the Sacred Scriptures which pervades the following work, and influenced by the hope that considerable light might thereby be thrown upon many obscure