Word: assyrian
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...first floor of the new art building. The collection will be in the same general line of work as the Boston Art Museum and the Slater Memorial of Norwich, differing from these collections in making all three collections co-operative in the advance of Romanesque, Gothic, Egyptian and Assyrian sculpture. The class of '81 in making this gift is keeping up with the old custom that each class ten years after graduation place some memorial stone or building on the campus as a monument of the generosity of the class...
...that sheds light on their times. This the inscriptions do more fully than any other line of study. By making the general course of contemporary history in western Asia clear, by furnishing precise chronological data, and by clearing up a multitude of references in the prophets to Babylonian and Assyrian matters, the cuneiform inscriptions are the best friend to the student of the prophets. The so-called "contract tablets," by revealing all phases of the social life at Babylon while the Jews were there in exile in the sixth century B. C., are particularly helpful, because they show the influences...
...lecture yesterday Prof. Lyon showed the close relationship between the first eleven chapters in Genesis and similar narratives in the Babylonian-Assyrian literature. In some cases, as the Deluge, the cuneiform account is almost completely recovered; in others. owing to the terrible fate that befell Assyrian libraries, only small fragments have yet been found. The use to which the Hebrews put this material constitutes the great superiority in the Hebrew versions. The writer of Genesis replaced polytheism by monotheism. Some things he left out, and retained only echoes of other portions. Thus, we find in Genesis a serpent which...
...They are found through Babylon and Assyria. Three years ago there wers found in Egypt some wonderful letters written about too B. C., in the Cuneiform script. The Old Testament aids us largely. It is a series of old letters written at about the time of the Babylonian and Assyrian civilization. If certain persons had not found similar letters in the Persian language, it is probable it might never have been clear. Even then we might never have known the sequence of historical events in the Jewish nation if the Persian kings had not written their records in parallel columns...
...them. Then came Saul, who gave the nation unity. They reached their greatest power and gtory under David and Solomon, who came shortly after. Soon they fell spart, into a Northern and Southern division, and for two centuries were engaged in wars. Invasion after invasion followed, until the great Assyrian king alluded to captured their leading city, Damascus, and put an and to the kingdom of Israel. He not only ended it, but over-ran all Judah, and even threatened Jerusalem, This we know not only from the Old Testament, but also from the records of the Assyrian kings...