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| − | '''The customs and rites of the Israelites:'''
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| − | “Now and again, he would gaze respectfully upon the other prophets, who walked the streets of Gilead wearing their customary cloaks of skins and sashes of leather and saying that the Lord had singled them out to guide the Chosen People” (Coelho).
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| − | “When he learned of his king’s marriage to Jezebel, princess of Tyre, he had thought it of little significance. Other kings of Israel had done the same, and the result had been a lasting peace in the region and an ever more important trade with Lebanon” (Coelho 11).
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| − | '''The customs and rites of the Phoenician people:'''
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| − | “Everyone knew of the ancient custom: if a city were to deny shelter to a traveler, the sons of its inhabitants would later face the same difficulty … no one dared challenge the law of hospitality” (Coelho 40).
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| − | “Custom said that the ruling family must be respected” (Coelho 43).
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| − | “Let the other countries fight among themselves: we have a weapon much more powerful than theirs-money. When they have finished destroying one another, we shall enter their cities—and sell our products” (Coelho 44).
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| − | “Every afternoon, they gathered at the foot of the Fifth Mountain and made sacrifices so the boy’s soul would not leave his body” (Coelho 46).
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| − | '''The customs and rites of the Phoenician priestly caste:'''
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| − | “The High Priest said the prayers to the rising sun and asked the god of the storm and the goddess of animals to have mercy on the foolish” (Coelho 63).
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| − | “Till that moment, only the priestly caste knew the memory of the ancestors, which was transmitted orally, under oath that the information would be kept secret” (Coelho 64).
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| − | '''Phoenician Alphabet'''
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| − | http://www.phoenician.org/alphabet_phoenician_letters.htm
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| − | “The oral tradition held that the center of the world was marked by a stone…” (Coelho 66).
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