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Professor Carl Bezold, of the University of Heidelberg, will deliver, under the auspices of the Semitic Department, an illustrated lecture on "The Influence of Babylonia and Assyria on Modern Civilization" in Emerson J this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be in English, which Professor Bezold speaks with fluency, and will be open to the public...
...Illustrated lecture on "The Influence of Babylonia and Assyria on Modern Civilization," by Professor Carl Bezold, in Emerson...
...fortunate as to discover nearly a hundred tablets, supposed to be a portion of the archives of King Ahab, written in ink and not engraved on the clay when it was soft. They are in Hebrew characters. One is reported to be a letter from an unknown King of Assyria which, if in Hebrew, is undoubtedly a translation. This discovery will probably be of great importance to students of archaeology...
This was quiet world spoken in a noisy time, said Dr. Van Dyke, for Egypt and Assyria were striving for supremacy and Israel was tossed between the opposing factions. There was also religious unrest, and men were tossed back and forth like shuttle cocks between superstition and atheism. In the midst of this confusion, the prophet, Isaiah, tells the people not to worry about political and social troubles, but to have faith and confidence in God. This faith lifts men up from the tumult and confusion of the world about them...
...with the world today, where there is no longer any unoccupied space, and where we are ever in the presence of original and refractory civilizations which cannot and will not be modified. This problem, said M. Millet, brings us back to the history of the Mediterranean when Egypt and Assyria 2500 years ago found themselves in the presence of the forming European societies. Finally M. Millet discussed the more important races of this region--the Phcenicians, which brought about an evocation of the great Carthage, and the Greeks who were responsible for the rapid diffusion of Hellenic culture...