Studies on Slavery, in Easy Lessons

Greek words are sometimes given without diacritical marks including in quoted passages, or the marks are incorrect, based upon what we now have for the Greek sources. The Greek is given here as printed.

On p. 484, the Hebrew characters חָ֞םḥām are printed using an unknown cantillation mark . The standard form has been substituted.

On p. 461, the Hebrew word בּוּתbût requires the vav as printed be a shuruk (וּû) to be read as a vowel 'û'. The character was printed without the dot, and is corrected here.

Arabic, Coptic, and Syriac scripts are rendered using the available Unicode characters. The script used by the author frequently could not be confirmed to match either the stated translations or the transliterations he provided. The Syriac script seems to be the so-called Western script. The Unicode characters follow the Estrangela, which was most widely used. Many of the Arabic words were either unrecognizable, did not match the transliterations given by the author, or both. Best guesses of the author’s intent are provided in the text.

On p. 390, the Arabic word which appears to be متصُعَادࣨmtsuaʿd , seems incorrect. The most likely word is مِصعادٌmiṣʿad, which has the meaning given by the author. This has been substituted.

On p. 592, the maqqef (־) in בַּתבְּלִיָּ־עַלbtblyʿ is misplaced. The word, from 1. Samuel i. 16, should be בַּת־בְּלִיַּעַלbat-bĕliyyaʿal, and has been corrected.

On p. 620, the Arabic غظنٌgzn does not exist; the author may have intended either عَدْنٌʿadn which means Eden or غَدَنgadan, which means languor, softness, limpness. etc. The former was used here.

Problematic cases with the original images and their replication here, are given below:

On p. 95, the quoted phrase from Ephesians 6:5, ‘And ye masters, do the same things unto them;[’], is missing the closing single quotation mark. The words which follow the semicolon seem to be a paraphrase. The punctuation has been added.

On p. 141, the paragraph beginning ‘In Judg. iii. 7, 8, we have as follows:’ has an unclosed double quotation. It is not clear where the citation ends, and the text has been given here as printed.

On p. 486, the citation of Jeremiah li. 55 is misprinted as verse 15. Immediately following, the first of two citations of Isaiah li. 13 should have been to verse 15. These have been corrected. The second reference to verse 13 is correct.

In Lesson IV of Study VII (pp. 516–536), the punctuation of the extracts is inconsistent, and, with just a few exceptions noted below, has been retained as printed.

On p. 630, the Praet. 2 m. conjugation of עבדʿbdt is printed as עְָבַדְתָּʿbdt, which is an invalid combination of vowel marks on the leading ayin. Either עָֽבַדְתָּʿābadtā or עֳבַדְתָּʿŏbadtā would be valid.