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...ASSYRIAN LECTURES.Prof. Lyon is giving a series of illustrated lectures on Thursdays at 4 p. m., in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, on "The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament." The public are invited. The remaining topics and dates are as follows...
...treated of the history of the discovery and decipherment of the inscriptions which are second only to the Old Testament in interest to students. The Old Testament is a history of the Hebrews from their own hands and the cuneiform inscriptions give us the history of the Babylonians and Assyrians with whom the Hebrews came much in contact. From the downfall of their mighty civilization, centuries before Christ, their records were lost till the site of Babylon was identified in 1765. It was not till 1848 that the labors of Botta, Place and Layard brought to light several Assyrian palaces...
...ASSYRIAN LECTURE.Professor Lyon will give five illustrated lectures on Thursdays at 4 p. m., in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, on "The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament." The public are invited. The topics and dates are as follows...
There are more changes than usual in the elective pamphlet this year. In the department of Semitic languages and history, course 12 of last year's pamphlet becomes course 11 this year, and what was course 11 last year, the third course in Assyrian, is omitted. Three new historical courses are offered in this department next year covering the history of Israel, history of the Hebrew religions, and history of the Spanish Califate...
Attention was directed to various works on Babylonian-Assyrian topics, as The Records of the Past, (new ed.), the histories of George Smith, Modern Ragosin, C. P. Tiele, Schrader's Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, The Hibbert Lectures for 1887 (Sayce), George Smith's Chaldean account of Genesis, Kellner's translation of the story of the deluge, Zimmer's Babylonische Busspsalmea and Perrot and Chipier on Ancient...