Table of Contents
Chapter 17
Post-Mosaic Festivals
 | Post-Mosaic Festivals --Object of these feasts |
| The Feast of Purim --The feast of Purim--Its origin and time--Was it ever attended by the Lord? |
| Ceremonies of the Feast --Services on the Feast of Purim--When and how the Megillah was read--Modern ceremonials |
| The Feast of the Dedication of the Temple |
| The Origin of this Festival --Its origin and duration--The 'Hallel' sung on each day of its duration; the people carried palm branches, and there was a grand illumination of the Temple and of private houses--Suggestion that the date of Christmas was taken from this feast--Practice as to the illumination |
| The Feast of Wood-offering --The Feast of the Wood-offering on the last of the nine seasons of the year, when such offerings were brought in the Temple--Rabbinical accounts of its origin |
| The Wood Used in the Festivals --Maidens dance in the vineyards on the afternoon of that day |
| Fasts/The Four Great Fasts --Fasts, public and private--Memorial fasts--The four great fasts mentioned in Zechariah 8 |
| Other Fasts --Mode of observing public fasts. |